Suse & OpenSuse : Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, How Tos and Troubleshooting

What’s the difference between “su” and “su –”?

March 6, 2009 – 4:54 am

We get asked this question quite often and maybe it is good to give a simple explanation.  “su” by itself means that you would like to assume the super user identity.  You can also assume the identity of another user using “su <userid>”.

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Manually Starting and Stopping Services in Suse/OpenSuse

February 28, 2009 – 4:50 am

YaST provides a extremely easy way for system administrators to manage which services run at boot. The YaST Runlevel Editor module is easy to understand and gives you important information about each service. You can choose to start or stop a process with nothing more than a mouse click.

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How to Burn ISO image onto CD / DVD

February 26, 2009 – 5:56 am

Often you may download some applications from the Internet that is stored as ISO image file. An ISO image is an archive file (also known as a disk image) of an optical disc in a format defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). So here is a simple tip on how to burn ISO [...]

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Open Special Locations in Nautilus with URI

February 25, 2009 – 7:51 pm

For Linux, the official file manager for the GNOME desktop is Nautilus. In case you wondering the origin for Nautilus, it is a play on words. By evoking the shell of a nautilus to represent an operating system shell. Nautilus replaced Midnight Commander in GNOME 1.4 and was the default from version 2.0 onwards.

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How to configure YaST firewall for BitTorrent

February 24, 2009 – 6:22 am

The most file sharing protocol is non other than the famous BitTorrent protocol. However sometimes you may be experiencing slow downloads when sharing P2P files when using BitTorrent client e.g. Utorrent. This is most likely to occur when your computer is behind a home router or software firewall. The OpenSuse firewall -YaST makes it nearly [...]

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