For those looking for a working iFolder client on openSUSE 11.1 (without additional headaches getting packages running), there are now official packages available in the standard openSUSE update repository.

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To install iFolder, just fire up YaST’s Software Manager and search for “ifolder3″, or open a terminal and type the following:

sudo zypper ref

sudo zypper in ifolder3

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Check out the whole story here : http://news.opensuse.org/2009/06/30/ifolder-packages-available-for-111/

If you are looking for a low cost, full scale & open Virtual Desktop / Application delivery solution (like VMWare has with it's VMWare View's VDI), there's an open source project that should catch your interest. It's called Ulteo.

Last month the first official release was launched, bringing you the option to push Windows and/or Linux based desktops and applications to end users through a web browser.

Read about Ulteo's first official release and more:
Ulteo releases the First Version of its Open Virtual Desktop (OVD)...

The last two months I've been following developments on the Moblin project with great interest.

Moblin 2.0 (in Beta at the moment) has the so called 'Clutter interface' as it's base. This interface makes it easy for users to get optimal Internet and multimedia use out of their netbook.
Originally this project was started by Intel and this year they have opened it up and placed it in the hands of the Linux foundation (http://moblin.org/).

Amongst others, bootspeed, optimal use of screenresolution and power consumption ..

After some fiddling around with fetchmail, the following is meant as note to self and for those who may find it useful...

Fetchmail is a small but powerful tool that can be used (in many ways) to retrieve email from a remote server using pop3, IMAP, and other popular protocols. It can reroute the fetched mail to a local account, system or simply pass it through to another SMTP service.

Just finished transferring this domain after having multiple issues/outages with my (ex)hosting provider.

Won't go into much detail.. but if you're ever thinking of getting a hosting account at UWHOST.net, I'd suggest to give it a good long second thought! A short review: support 1, response time 1, value for your money 3

... I'll just leave it at that.

Just a little tip that might make your Teaming experience all more so pleasant. If you've noticed your browser lagging behind your clicks or simply being dead slow in opening a new page... Grab yourself a copy of one of the latest browsers.

There have been many optimizations in the way Java code is being handled by the new generation browsers (Firefox 3.5, IE 8.0, Opera 10, etc). This results in a general speed boost when browsing resource hungry sites (e.g. LinkedIn, Hyves, you name it...).

Although FireFox 3.5 is still in beta, it will handle most (if not all) actions gracefully. To me the speed increse feels greater than when using IE 8.0.

NOTE: Big chance your custom plugins working on 3.0 won't all run on 3.5 (just yet). You might want to test your results on a lesser important workstation or vm.

Get a copy of firefox 3.5 beta here :

openSUSE/Linux users:

openSUSE 11.1 OneClick FireFox 3.5 Beta 4

openSUSE 11.0 OneClick FireFox 3.5 Beta 4

Windows / Mac users: FireFox 3.5 Beta 4

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