14) Installing full Multimedia Support (Also referred to as restricted formats)

openSUSE only ships with multimedia components that are open and free to use. Closed formats are not included by default but can be added with little effort.

There are two ways to do this. A) Manually adding the needed packages or B) running the One-Click install.

As on page two, you've probably already figured I'm a fan of zypper. Using it you can easily add the needed packages without the clutter One-Click can bring.

A) Install method using zypper:

Page 2 - Adding extra useful packages

7) After successfully having run the openSUSE 11.1 installer, first run your updates.

To do this use YaST > Online Update

NOTE: With GNOME, PackageKit (a system update mechanism) gets loaded by default. This can temporarily lock your package management access.
If, when running Online Update , you get a message that the package repository is locked.. Wait a couple of minutes and try again.

Scope:
This writeup is to share some thoughts on how I've setup my 'perfect desktop' running GNOME and openSUSE 11.1. There are other varieties found on Internet, each with a slight difference in setup and choice of tools. It's all good as long as you are getting the most out of your Linux system!
Also, this is not an exact step by step tutorial but meant to give pointers & tips that you can use in your openSUSE setup.

What is VMWare VMI and how can it speed up your SLES 10 SP2 & openSUSE systems?
Note that at this moment only the 32bit VMI kernel version is supported by VMWare.

A nice read : Virtualized SUSE runs better with patch vmwares vmi standard

Howto: Enable VMI with SLES 10 SP2

Also take note to this TID : TID 7002224 - Installing Admin Console on VMWare ESX guest using the SLES "VMI" kernel fails

For those looking for a way to set persistent custom system and user variables, here are some guidelines for doing so in openSUSE and SLES / SLED.
Other Linux distributions follow a similar approach but the filenames can differ.

NOTE: Export is a command to be used to set your desired setting. Entering ' export ' on the command line will show you the environment variables that have been set. ' env ' will give you a complete list of your environment parameters.

Where and what to place?

Looking for more information on Novell Teaming?

Ok.. so you've setup your Teaming server and had a stab at it...
If your thinking to yourself 'how can I get more out of this?', here are a couple of places to start:

There is an interesting blog over at blog.wilmsenit.nl comparing NSS disk performance on VMWare VMFS vs RAW disk access (RDM).
Surprisingly for NSS there is a big performance drop when using VMFS in combination with iSCSI.

Bottom line:

Download the latest iPrint client (you need at least the 4.38 version found here.)

Needed dependancy package:
Before installing the iPrint rpm, make sure you have the glitz package installed as this is a dependency requirement.

For those waiting to have and test the NCL on openSUSE 11.1 (or SLED11 if you have it), here is the download link for the Beta:

Novell Client for Linux 2.0 SP1 Beta for SLED 11 and OpenSUSE 11.1
For some reason it's not published on the Novell Public Beta site, but so far I have the client working on my 11.1 rig.

Quickest way to get things setup:
1) Download the iso (32 or 64 bit)
2) open a console and elevate to root ( su - )
3) mount the iso ( mount -o loop /path/.iso /mnt )