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The openSuSE "Tumbleweed" Rolling Distribution

...they are stable can be tricky. It is starting to look like openSuSE is doing a good job of this, with their "Tumbleweed" distribution. Tumbleweed... Read more

29 February, 2012

openSuSE 12.1 Beta and Gnome 3

The next release of openSuSE, 12.1 (code named Asparagus), made it to Beta release over the... Read more

3 October, 2011

openSuSE 11.6 Milestone 6

...who are looking for a conclusion to my recent blog post about openSuSE 11.4 development, there is generally good news. First, and most importantly... Read more

28 January, 2011

What's Up with openSuSE

This post is not intended as criticism of the openSuSE project in any way. Most of what I am writing about here... Read more

25 January, 2011

Samsung N150 Plus Netbook - openSuSE 11.3

...of various Linux distributions on the N150 Plus, the next step was openSuSE 11.3 - and I realized that I had made a very fortuitous... Read more

1 September, 2010

openSuSE 11.3 Released

Right on schedule, openSuSE 11.3 was released yesterday (15 July). As usual, it is available... Read more

16 July, 2010

openSuSE 11.3 RC1 Installation

After successfully installing the latest pre-release of openSuSE 11.3 on my HP Pavillion dv2-1010ez (AMD/ATI/Atheros) yesterday... Read more

18 June, 2010

Samsung 305U - Part 2, Linux Preparation and openSuSE Installation

...to actually install Linux on it - in this case that will be openSuSE 12.1 KDE. So, what needs to be "prepared" for Linux installation... Read more

27 December, 2011

openSuSE 12.1 Released

...very hard work by the developers, leading to the release yesterday of openSuSE 12.1. As I have mentioned a few times here, I have... Read more

17 November, 2011

openSuSE 11.4 Released (Updated

...a lot of new releases in the works. The first of those, openSuSE 11.4 arrived today. I have been watching this one particularly closely... Read more

10 March, 2011

Beyond the World Cup - openSuSE 11.3 development

...versions of popular Linux distributions... I have been following the development of openSuSE 11.3, which is currently at Milestone 7. I generally download the... Read more

17 June, 2010

Vector Linux 7.0 GOLD Released

...surrounding the recent release of Linux Mint 12 (and Fedora 16, and openSuSE 12.1), it is easy to overlook the smaller Linux distributions. Vector... Read more

30 November, 2011

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Scorecard

Well, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting an Ubuntu 12.04 review, with pictures, videos, step-by-step... Read more

29 April, 2012

Samsung NP300E5A Notebook

It is really starting to look like I have an affinity for Samsung computers. This is at least my fifth one, and I have... Read more

3 May, 2012

HP Pavilion dm1-4010ez - Installing Linux Mint 12

When we left our lovely new HP sub-notebook, we had just finished configuring Windows 7 Home Premium. Now it is time to... Read more

5 January, 2012

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SRist

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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