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What are .Z, .gz and .bz2 files?

April 15, 2009 – 12:04 am

As part of a tarball distribution and also other compressed files, you will come across files with the .Z, .gz and .bz2 extensions.  These are basically files that have been compressed using different applications, much like the .zip files predominantly found in the Windows environment.

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What is a tarball?

April 13, 2009 – 7:22 pm

OpenSuSE and SuSE uses the Redhat Package Manager (rpm) for the distribution of software applications.  However, from time to time, we will also be asked to download the tarball as oppose to the rpm package.  So what is this tarball?

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SUSE Studio : Create your own customized Linux OS

April 6, 2009 – 3:56 am

Recently Novell has unveiled a sneak preview of the alpha release of SUSE Studio at VMworld. In a nutshell, SUSE Studio is an innovative way to enable both standardization and customization of a Linux distribution. With SUSE Studio, you can customize and build your own personal distribution in as many ways you could possibly think [...]

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