My current desktop screen shots with spec listed below.
OS : openSUSE 11.3 64bit
Desktop : KDE 4.5.1
Desktop Theme : Glassified
Color Scheme : Oxygen Platinum
Icons : H2O
Style : Oxygen
Fonts : Droid Sans and DejaVu Sans
Desktop Effects : Kwin
Window Decorations : Oxygen
Wallpaper : Green Tea
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openSUSE team announced the new release of openSUSE distro tagged openSUSE 11.4.
This milestone contains libzypp version 8.1, which has a new backend for http and ftp package downloads. MultiCurl replaces the old MediaAria backend, and brings support for zsync transfers and better Metalink download support. ZSync reduces the amount of data to download by only fetching the changed parts of a file instead of the whole file. This speeds up repository refreshes, since due to the way the repository data is structured, it is easy to locate the parts of the metadata that changed since the last update.
Some of the features:
Next Milestone due date is 30th September.
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Hi all,
Few days back i had written a post for KDE4.4.5 in openSUSE 11.3 and mentioned that KDE4.5 will be pushed to factory later, and it just happened. Now factory repos have KDE4.5 instead of KDE4.4.5.
If you are interested to upgrade to KDE4.5, follow this post and in a while you will be enjoying KDE4.5.
In the mean time, i will search for new repos for KDE4.4.5, but if any one have information about KDE4.4.5 for openSUSE 11.3, please let us know via comment section.
Note: This post will be updated from time to time if there are any news about KDE4.5 and KDE4.4.5. Because the above mentioned link to post was written for KDE4.4.5.
Arif
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openSUSE 11.3 is released and many new users will be looking for some simple guide to have a dual boot. I am going to guide you in this article step by step with images showing the executed step that how to install openSUSE with windows 7. Installation medium used will be openSUSE 11.3 64bit KDE live CD. System configuration is:
I assume that you have already windows 7 installed on your system. Now the 1st thing you need to do is have some spare disk space to install Linux on it. If don’t have yet, use Gparted(live cd) or partition manager(windows software) to spare some space for new installation. Read the documentation of the mentioned software for how to have shrink or spare disk space from any drive. Now lets jump to the installation of openSUSE. Before doing all this, make sure you BACKUP your data.
1- If you don’t have it yet, download the iso from openSUSE download site and write it to CD, before writing always check the md5sum to check for the corrupt file. After burning, boot from the CD you just burned., and go to LIVE desktop. You will see the desktop showed in figure below.
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2- Now is the time to start installation. Click on the install icon on the desktop.
3- Select your language and keyboard setup.
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4- Select your location and set the date & time.
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5- Now is the time to setup the partitions on the disk. By default setup will create its own partition table for you as shown in the below image. But it may not be the setup of the disk we want, so to create our own partitions click on the button ‘create partition setup‘.
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5a- Choose ‘Custom partitioning‘ from the three choices given as shown in the image.
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5b- By completing step 5a, you will see the screen below. Now choose the drive you want to setup, if you have one drive, it will be sda, the 2nd will be showed as sdb. In this case, we will choose sda.
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5c- By choosing sda you will see your disk partitions including windows NTFS one. You will also see the blank space which you created by using Gparted or other software. sda1,sda2,sda3 are windows partitions which i don’t want to touch except mounting them. In the image below you will see sda4 as Extended Partition, where it have logical partitions as sda5,sda6,sda7 will be used as root file system, swap and a backup partition(in my case for data to save). Here all these partitions are created before, but when you reach this setup, you can setup your disk partitions by using the spare drive you created. Make that whole spare drive as Extended and then make logical drives in it depending on your needs. You can create many as you want. I make three, one for root, one for swap and one for my documents. To mount it, choose the partition and click on Edit button below.
5d- If you are done successfully with above steps, now lets mount all partitions.
5d1- In this image you can see that i mounted the windows C partition where windows is installed. It is sda2, sda1 always is reserved partition in windows 7. You can mount all other drives like D, E if you have the same way like sda2.
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5d2- Now lets mount the root file system. You can choose any format option from the drop down, i choose ext4 and input / in mount partition (mount point) option below. It will mount sda5 as root to install your new Linux OS.
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5d3- Do the same with the swap partition. Just choose swap from the format option and click ok. If you have other partitions, like sda7, sda8 you can mount it to any name you want in mount point area.
5e- This image shows the changes i done to the partitions. Be careful about formatting partitions. You can see F, that mean this partition will be formatted. Don’t format partition which have your documents. Formatting option is discussed in step 5d2 and 5d3.
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6- This image shows the final changes we have done to the disk. Check it again and again and make sure is correct, if not you can edit it again. When you are sure click the next button to proceed.
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7- Next is to create user, enter the desired details and make sure that all the check boxes are unchecked for security reasons. Click next.
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8- Enter your root password here. Different from the normal user above.
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9- After step 8, its time to check your setup for installation. Check the setup which is going to take place, if you are satisfy with it, click Install. It will ask to confirm the installation.
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Now wait for the installation to finish.
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10- Installation is finished partially. Choose to reboot to finish the installation. After 1st reboot, installation will setup the configuration for the hardware and system, this time it will not show any GRUB MENU for multiple boot. But the next time you reboot, it will show you the nice graphical screen with multiple boot options for Linux and windows.
Note: If something went wrong at the grub menu for multiple OS, so follow this tutorial to repair/install the grub again.
Update: If you are on 11.2 and want to upgrade to 11.3 through zypper and don’t want to install from scratch. This post will help you.
Good luck, enjoy openSUSE/Linux and have a lot of fun!
Arif
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UPDATE (22-07-2010 11am) : As i mentioned below, that factory repo will be populated with KDE4.5 later, and it happened. Factory now have KDE4.5 instead of KDE4.4.5. So with this post you will be updated to KDE4.5. ATM there are no repos for KDE4.4.5, this post will be updated time to time for latest updates related to KDE4.5 and KDE4.4.5. Just follow step 1 and 2 and ignore the rest of the post contents.
Update (13-08-2010 10am) : KDE4.5.0 is released, after reading this post if you found that this a bit complicated to follow, i had written another post for KDE4.5.0 installation, which is neat, clean and very easy to follow. Here you can find it.
openSUSE 11.3 by default have KDE4.4.4 desktop for KDE. As we know, KDE4.4.5 is released and even KDE4.5 rc2 also has been released some time ago. KDE4.4.5 is very stable and many bugs have been fixed since KDE4.4.4. For this upgrading process we will use factory repos for 11.3, which currently have KDE4.4.5, and later KDE4.5 will be pushed to it(i guess).
Lets start the fun.
1- Open YaST and go to software repositories and add the following repos with any name you want.
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Factory/openSUSE_11.3/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_11.3_KDE_Distro_Factory/
If you are also using playground repo, add this repo, if not just leave this repo and go to step 2.
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/Playground/openSUSE_11.3_KDE_Distro_Factory/
After adding repos, close software repositories module.
2-Two type of upgrades you can do from here.
a- Now open Software management in YaST, and choose Repositories tab. Select the newly added repo and click on ‘switch system packages‘. See the image below.
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Do the same for community and playground(if have) repo, and click Accept.
b- If you wana do it the terminal way, here you go. Open terminal, and become root by typing su – and enter your root password. Now type:
zypper dup
This will upgrade the whole system wide packages. If you don’t want that, refer to step a above.
3- After upgrading, reboot your PC and you are there with KDE4.4 latest packages.
Arif
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Hi folks, the wait is over and here is our favorite openSUSE new release.
openSUSE 11.3 is released a while ago. Release announcement:
The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the latest incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
Some features of 11.3:
Don’t miss product highlights.
Wana check out screen shots before trying it out, here you go.
Wana download and install it, here are the mirrors:
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Stay tune for installation with windows 7 (dual boot). Coming soon.
Update (19-07-2010 1:00pm) : here is the dual boot guide.
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openSUSE 11.3 is around the corner and going to release in couple of days. So why not lets our hands dirty a little by learning some thing and try out these on a testing system. 1st lets find out, what is zypper?
ZYpp (or libzypp) is a package management engine that powers Linux applications like YaST, Zypper and the openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise implementation of PackageKit.
Wana read more about zypper, enjoy reading here and here.
And here you will find zppyer in action.
Have fun reading and testing it. Stay tune for 11.3 announcement and download.
Arif
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As of now, KDE4.4.4 is already released and the last release of this major KDE4.4 will release this Tuesday which is KDE4.4.5.
Are you looking for the complete schedule of KDE4.4, here it is.
Keep in touch for the latest updates for openSUSE.
Want to update to DKE4.4, checkout this post. Oh, love to try out bleeding edge KDE4.5 beta ATM, here you go. You can read short review of KDE4.5 beta2 here.
Good luck!
Arif
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