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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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How to mount NFS Filesystems at Boot Time

April 22, 2009 – 5:42 am

Network File System (NFS) is a network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984. With NFS, clients can mount filesystems across the network that are being offered by NFS servers and can work with them as if they were filesystems mounted from local disks. NFS is a simple and widely used method [...]

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Using redirections: 2>&1 (Part 2 of 2)

April 19, 2009 – 10:21 pm

If you go through enough shell scripts, you will notice the frequent use of 2>&1.  What does it mean and how it works? We have briefly introduced standard in (stdin) and standard out (stdout).  In the command line interface and also in shell programming, these are represented as follows: 0 Standard In (STDIN) 1 Standard [...]

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