Posts Tagged 'opensuse'

Pedro M. S. Oliveira

MENTAL NOTE – Article about BRTFS on OpenSuSE

Just a link about something I found interesting, its about using BRTFS on OpenSuSE.

http://news.opensuse.org/2012/01/23/using-btrfs-on-opensuse-12-1/

Cheers, Pedro

6 February 2012 at 12:42 - Comments
Pedro M. S. Oliveira

Qualcomm, Inc. Sony Gobi 2000 Wireless Modem – OpenSuSE 12.1 – Vaio VPCSB

Hello,

Recently I’ve updated my openSuSE 11.4 to the latest openSuSE 12.1, it was a hassle free upgrade and my system is running smoothly, nevertheless I didn’t use one of my favorite features on this laptop, the built in GSM card. Today I needed it and, bummer, it didn’t work, even if I could see it in network manager…

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24 November 2011 at 16:55 - Comments
Pedro M. S. Oliveira

OpenSuSE Linux on Sony Vaio VPCSB – User Review

Hi today I was using my new laptop (well it has about 1 month now) and I thought in sharing my usage experience with it. My Vaio is a VPCSB and I run it with OpenSuSE 11.4 X86_64. I have a thing for Sony Vaios, this one is my 4th. I like Vaios for their build quality, looks, performance and size as I also travel quite a bit.

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12 October 2011 at 23:33 - Comments
Pedro M. S. Oliveira

What’s the best linux distribution?

Lots of people ask me what’s the best Linux distro, some say what’s the best for a newbie others want to setup a home server and some others want to build a gatekeeper. So what’s the best distro to accomplish all this?

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7 December 2009 at 12:05 - Comments
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I personally think Ubuntu 10.4 is the best one out there. I did not really fall in love with KDE. ...
25 June 10 at 00:39
Pedro M. S. Oliveira

Using a recover CD to restore a backup made with BackupPC – BackupPC as disaster recovery

One of these day in a normal work day one small server I maintain add an hard disk failure (yes it’s true, it happened again for the 3rd time this month). In this system I don’t have a RAID setup so the data was lost, well no prob I thought in the end all day is on my backuppc server.

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21 August 2009 at 19:30 - Comments