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Installing SysBench on OpenSuSE 11.3

November 30, 2010 – 2:33 am

SysBench is a system performance benchmark that is available on sourceforge.net.  You can download it from sysbench.sourceforge.net and currently on version 0.4.12.  It is currently not in the OpenSuSE nor SuSE software repository and you will have to download the sources and build it.

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Novell Agrees to be Acquired by Attachmate Corporation

November 23, 2010 – 7:56 am

WALTHAM, Mass., 22 Nov 2010: Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL), the leader in intelligent workload management, today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Attachmate Corporation would acquire Novell for $6.10 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion. Attachmate Corporation is owned by an investment group [...]

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Beginners Guide to Compiling Kernel on OpenSuSE 11.3

November 19, 2010 – 12:51 am

Often, we move from a laboratory to another or from an organization to another, we are task with making changes to the Linux system’s kernel.  One thing to note is that each Linux distribution has a different “recommended” method for making changes.  Here, I will document a quick and easy method to compiling the kernel [...]

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Installing Google Chromium on OpenSuSE 11.3

November 3, 2010 – 11:14 pm

If you are a fan of Google’s Chrome web browser, you can get their Open Source version called Chromium for OpenSuSE 11.3.  Although there is a Chrome Beta version, some prefer the Chromium version due to it being Open Source!

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MeeGo v1.0: Preview to SuSE MeeGo

June 5, 2010 – 10:55 am

This is kinda old news since it was announced late last year that Novell will support Moblin and being the lead developer of Moblin for netbooks, they have obviously also adopted the merged effort by Nokia and Intel (Maemo and Moblin) resulting in MeeGo.

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