How to Change GRUB GFX Menu

By On September 20, 2009 · 5 Comments · In chirag, geek, linux, opensuse

Like many people, I was bored with the good-old green coloured (openSUSE default) graphical menu of GRUB. Now, GRUB comes in with a “penguin” theme also with openSUSE but switched off by default. Here’s how to enable it and make your bootloader a bit funky..

$ cd /boot
$ mkdir message1
$ [...]

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Pinax And Open Suse

By On August 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In opensuse, Shanky

Pinax installation on Open Suse using source code

download pinax from http://pinaxproject.com/download/ tar -xvzf pinax-0.7beta3.tar.gz  [ i.e untar it to some directory] curl -O http://github.com/pinax/pinax/raw/master/scripts/pinax-boot.py python pinax-boot.py –development ./pinax-env source ./pinax-env/bin/activate cd ./pinax-env/ pip install –requirement src/pinax/requirements/external_apps.txt easy_install -i http://dist.serverzen.com/pypi/simple PILwoTk   [for PIL python imaging library] pinax-admin clone_project social_project placeNameOfYourProjectHere cd [...]

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Days @FOSS.IN Day 2 – 4

By On November 29, 2008 · 3 Comments · In Abhijeet, geek, info, kde4, kernel, linux, LUG, notification, open source, OpenSource, opensuse, Planet KDE, qt, review, Shanky, suggestions, viewpoint

We had a great time in Foss.in , here are some pic taken by Apple iPhone +Motorola E6 { IMHO , both these phones need flash }

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OpenSUSE 11.0 review

By On July 23, 2008 · 9 Comments · In Compiz Fusion, geek, kde4, linux, open source, OpenSource, opensuse, review, softwares, Uncategorized

I have used half a dozen of operating systems in the last few months and am now most comfortable with openSUSE provided by Novell.After using 10.3 for about 4 months I was waiting for the much hyped SUSE11.0. I had already croped up a lot of errers in the previous installations and the release of [...]

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Open Suse’s Cool Feature

By On March 11, 2008 · 4 Comments · In linux, opensuse, Shanky, software

type “/sbin/yast2 stroj-casu ”

on Open Suse 10.3 command line

and voila you are seeing what would be Suse linux’s answer to Apple’s Time Machine

From wikipedia :: Time Machine is a backup utility developed by Apple which is included with Mac [...]

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