Don’t be confused about Chrome and Chromium. Both are browsers and using the same engines, then what’s the difference?, the difference is one is actively developed by open source community[Chromium] and the other is maintained and developed by Google[Chrome]. Google Chrome can say provide stable version, while Chromium is dev build version[unstable] which is stable though but have new features which then go to Google Chrome stable version later. Chromium is already provided in openSUSE default repositories. But for Google Chrome we need to add new repository. Which will have three versions, stable, beta, unstable. If you want to have different versions of this browser, install both Chromium and Chrome. Currently i’m running both versions, stable version from Google[Chrome] repository and dev build[Chromium] from openSUSE repositories. 1st of all open terminal and become root by su - , and then type, choose your system architecture:

64bit version

zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 Google-Chrome

32bit version

zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386 Google-Chrome

Now type:

zypper ref

And install Google Chrome:

zypper in google-chrome-stable

Now you will have two versions of Chrome/Chromium browser.

I have Sony Vaio VPCCA laptop, which have hybrid graphic cards Intel and ATI. I had tried the catalyst drivers from AMD to switch the cards, but with no luck. New release of the driver version 12.1 is available and seems that it had/has fixed the issues with switchable modes. I can confirm that, i have installed the drivers and every thing just works.

Had replied to a thread in openSUSE forums with the installation procedure in detail, here is the specific post from the thread. Hope it will work for you.

Good luck with it!

Firefox 10 is released and it is available in openSUSE Mozilla already. I will show you how to get the latest stable release using zypper(via terminal) and YaST(via graphical interface).

1st method (the terminal way):

1- Open terminal, become root by su - and type the following line (will add the mozilla repo),

openSUSE 11.4

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.4/ FF11.4

openSUSE 12.1

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_12.1/ FF12.1

2- Now type this,

zypper ref
zypper dup --from FF12.1

FF12.1 is for openSUSE 12.1, if you are on 11.4, change it to FF11.4. (Don’t worry, its just a repo name). And that’s it.

2nd method (the YaST way):

1- Open Yast -> software repositories and click on add button, click next by choosing specify URL from above options and add the repo(mentioned in 1st method above) for your specific distro with name in the Repository Name field. Click next button to finish.

2- Now open Software management from YaST, choose the repo name you just added and click on ‘switch system packages’. Accept and that’s it.

Which method you will go for?, i will definitely go for 1st one, easy with few lines to run from terminal.

KDE 4.8 is out now, and most of the users(KDE fans) might love to give this new version a try(i am one of them). I have upgraded and proudly can say, i’m in love with KDE. This is amazing stuff from KDE, no doubt in that. Faster experience, Cool dolphin, snappier Gwenview and more interesting stuff. As i mentioned/ing in my posts/articles i am openSUSE user, so here i will show you how to upgrade to KDE 4.8 in openSUSE.

1st of all, you will need to add the following repos(YaST -> software repositories), and disable/delete other KDE repos you have enabled.

openSUSE 11.4:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/48/openSUSE_11.4/

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_48_openSUSE_11.4/

openSUSE 12.1:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/48/openSUSE_12.1/

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_48_openSUSE_12.1/

Now open terminal, become root by su - and type:

zypper dup

Easy and simple!

One more thing here, if you face dependency issues, i would suggest to follow this thread in openSUSE forums, read it carefully and i am pretty sure you will find all the solutions to your problem there.