here’s my personal summary upgrade went very well. although not supported, a simple dist-upgrade worked like a charm the only shock was after the first reboot. GRUB was broken. I didn’t even see the GRUB screen. The machine would be...

some users might have a RaLink RT2860 network device, such as some EeePC my distribution kernel by default enabled the rt2860sta driver which is from the vendor. however, there is a better choice: recent kernel come with the rt2×00 driver....

I have two screens connected to a powerful box. Mostly, I’m using these for coding and it’s running Xinerama with radeon (sssh don’t say anything). Only sometimes however, I would like to share the machine with a second user. There...

Result: Useful if you have a huge resolution and having trouble making out which line the “failed” belongs to :-) --- /etc/rc.status 2010-05-19 16:05:42.561038358 +0200 +++ /etc/rc.status 2010-05-19 10:09:18.287053928 +0200 @@ -70,14 +70,15 @@ attn="${esc}[1;33m" norm=`echo -en "${esc}[m\017"` stat=`echo -en...

I’d like to install multiple kernels, one of the recent development Linux 2.6.31 kernels that openSUSE makes available in the Kernel:HEAD project and the ones in the distribution update channel that contain mostly security fixes and are of version 2.6.27...

If you want to use umtsmon on openSUSE, it will fail to set the DNS entries. The reason is that with NETWORKMANAGER=yes in /etc/sysconfig/network/config, netconfig refuses to update the resolv.conf as it thinks only NetworkManager should do so. You usually...