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OpenSuse 11.2 is ready for release

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The much anticipated OpenSUSE 11.2 is scheduled for the final release in November. The last milestone for OpenSUSE was the OpenSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 (M8) which features numerous bug fixes, Linux kernel 2.6.31, improved partioning, social networking clients, and new versions of packages including GNOME 2.28, says the project.

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Opensuse 11.1 KDE4 Reloaded

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OpenSUSE 11.2 will be released in two months, however the recently released of OpenSUSE 11.1 KDE4 Reloaded images allows us to have a good preview of the upcoming 11.2 version.

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Installing HP LaserJet 1020 Printer for OpenSuSE

Printers such as the HP LaserJet 1020 (1000, 1005, 1018, 1022 inclusive) are usually detected by the various Linux distribution.  However, there seem to have little success in ensuring that the printer drivers installed works.

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How to start services automatically at boot?

In the traditional sense, when we want to include a new service at boot time, we looked into the /etc/init.d/ directory and figure out where to put it.  (I tend to look and figure it out as it changes over the years).

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Differential backup script sample

We should regularly backup our servers (and PCs and notebooks) and if you are running a production server, backing up as regularly as possible should be considered.  However, backing corporate servers which are full of emails or shared documents can take hours.  We can probably only do so on the weekends.  So, what happens when we need to restore some data at the end of the work week?  Does it mean that we will loose all our data that we created or modified earlier on in the week, since we only have last week’s backup?
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