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Simple Image Editing in OpenSuSE: GraphicsMagick

March 1, 2010 – 8:38 pm

Personal multimedia content such as images and videos seem to be taking up most of our disk space and hence the ever increasing amount of Gigabytes and soon to be Terabytes on our desktop.  Having OpenSuSE as your main desktop environment would also mean that in addition to having Office Productivity, Instant Messaging and Web [...]

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How to install VirtualBox Guest Additions in OpenSuse 11.2

February 28, 2010 – 10:41 pm

VirtualBox Guest Additions allows users to get some excellent features like "seamless mouse integration", shared folder access etc, between my host (Windows 7) and guest (OpenSuse 11.2), and increase the screen resolution from 800 X 600 to 1024×768. Besides that, the Guest Additions also improve its performance and cooperation with the rest of the [...]

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OpenSUSE 11.3 hits second milestone, now features KDE 4.4 Desktop

February 24, 2010 – 7:12 pm

OpenSuse project has released the latest milestone – Milestone 2 of its OpenSuse 11.3 which features Linux 2.6.33 and also the new KDE 4.4 Desktop. This new KDE desktop introduces a new netbook interface, native window tabbing and the KAuth authentication Framework, among other improvements and new applications.

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How to install GNOME desktop environment theme in OpenSuse 11.1

February 23, 2010 – 6:43 am

Linux desktops in general offers users the capabilities to customize the operating system to meet any particular preferences. The OpenSUSE implementation of the GNOME desktop environment is no exception to this rule.

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How to install Gnome/KDE Desktop Environment on OpenSuse 11

January 12, 2010 – 2:39 am

If you using OpenSuse and would like to switch from GNOME Desktop environment to KDE Desktop environment or vice versa, then this is a simple blog post for you.

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