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

Simple Image Editing in OpenSuSE: GraphicsMagick

March 1, 2010 – 8:38 pm

Personal multimedia content such as images and videos seem to be taking up most of our disk space and hence the ever increasing amount of Gigabytes and soon to be Terabytes on our desktop.  Having OpenSuSE as your main desktop environment would also mean that in addition to having Office Productivity, Instant Messaging and Web [...]

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Short and quick tutorial for the command “tar”

April 16, 2009 – 3:00 am

We have recently posted about tarball and the use of tar coupled with compression programs to create it.  Here, we will go through three (3) short tutorial on using tar.
To compress a list of files
To compress (the c in the options) a list of files into a specific file (the f in the options) whilst [...]

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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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How to setup and enable OpenSSH

April 7, 2009 – 6:09 am

OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH connectivity tools. For many users of telnet, rlogin, and ftp, they may not realize that most of the time their password is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted. With OpenSSH, it encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. Besides that, [...]

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