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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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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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How to run Windows software on OpenSuse

December 22, 2009 – 5:12 am

Wine is a free software application that aims to allow Unix-like computer operating systems to execute programs written for Microsoft Windows.

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Automatically dating your tar backups

May 5, 2009 – 10:38 pm

Normally, we use the tar command coupled with some compression program such as gzip to create a backup of our directories. I.e.
# tar -cf /var/log/backup/tux.tar /home/tux

to backup the home directory of the user tux into the directory  /var/log/backup.

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