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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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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 Product.

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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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