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OpenSUSE: An Artist's Heaven, Make You Tablet Pen Work Under Linux

Tablet pens are one of the finest tools an artist can have in this digital age. I am not an artist per say; I am a wannabe. I own an iBall Tablet pen, which I used for sketching. I was using it under Ubuntu successfully until Lucid. After that version my tablet never worked. There was a PPA but it did not get upgraded beyond Natty so my tablet has been collecting dust ever since.

Added Mon, 2012-02-20 17:14 by Swapnil Bhartiya

How To Render Hindi, Indic Fonts In openSUSE

This easy howto helps those users who face problems with websites in Indian languages. With one simple step you will be able to see Indian websites as they are supposed to look.

Added Mon, 2012-02-20 03:58 by Swapnil Bhartiya

How To Install VLC 2.0 In openSUSE

The VLC team has announced the release of VLC 2.0, code named, Twoflower. VLC 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC. The latest version of VLC offers faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs.

Added Sun, 2012-02-19 06:57 by Swapnil Bhartiya

KDE Tablet Spark Now Available For Pre-order

Aaron Seigo, the lead of KDE project, has announced the pre-order registration for the first 'pure' Linux tablet Spark

Added Sat, 2012-02-18 19:33 by Richard Will

openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 1 Released

openSUSE 12.1 is one of the best openSUSE versions (both KDE and Gnome Shell) of openSUSE. Now, with the release of Milestone 1, the development of openSUSE 12.2 has started.

Added Sat, 2012-02-18 02:51 by Jonathan Muhin

How To Install LibreOffice 3.5 In openSUSE

LibreOffice 3.5 was released a few days ago. This is the third major release of the popular open source office suite. With this version LibreOffice has taken a huge leap in terms of features. One of the most important feature is the a new grammar checking tool.

Added Thu, 2012-02-16 12:56 by Swapnil Bhartiya

Want to See LibreOffice 3.5 In openSUSE?

As an openSUSE user, you may want to run LibreOffice on your machine as soon as possible. Don't you?

Added Wed, 2012-02-15 12:49 by Swapnil Bhartiya

Gnome Shell Customization: Panel-Docklet L

Gnome Shell 3 has been my favorite from the day one it was released. Even my wife found it cool. It is becoming more and more useful with the new extensions being added at an unprecedented rate. I have switched my desktop to KDE and Gnome Shell 3 so that I can get my work done without being interrupted by the inconsistent UI design. While KDE offers immense customization (you can do almost everything in KDE), Gnome shell is fast approaching there.

Added Tue, 2012-02-14 06:00 by Swapnil Bhartiya

KDE Powered Spark Caught On Video

Aaron Seigo, the KDE lead and creator of Spark, has released a video of Spark running Plasma Active. The Spark is getting quite a lot of attention from the companies as well. Aaron Seigo says, "We've also received numerous inquiries from both ISVs and potential retail partners. The potential for using Spark (and subsequent) devices for vertical applications has not been lost on the savvy. Use in educational settings, for medical imaging applications and in customer service roles have all been raised."

Added Fri, 2012-02-10 12:41 by Swapnil Bhartiya

Meet KDE's Own HUD - AppMenu Runner

Alex Fiestas has restarted working on a project called AppMenu Runner which implements the same ideas of Unity's HUD. 'Actions Lookup' as Alex Fiestas named it more than a year ago (the blog was posted on December 22, 2010) can be a very useful tool, if it can be integrated with krunner. He has made another attempt at Actions Menu (which he now calls AppMenu Runner) and has published the code.

Added Thu, 2012-02-09 12:03 by Swapnil Bhartiya

Canonical Changes Treatment For Kubuntu! [Updated]

Jonathan Riddel has announced that, "Canonical will no longer be funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such as Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and support the projects with infrastructure. This is a big challenge to Kubuntu of course and KDE as well."

Added Tue, 2012-02-07 03:48 by Swapnil Bhartiya

Mind-Controlled Game, Mind Labyrinth, Comes To Linux

Linux has yet to become a platform for gaming. Ubuntu is doing a decent job by increasing focus on polish and looks of the Debian-based operating system to make to more appealing to users and OEMs. Linux may be missing the high-end games, but there are quite a lot of games that one can play under a GNU/Linux system such as Ubuntu, openSUSE or Linux Mint.

Added Mon, 2012-02-06 03:24 by Neil Richards

Can Lubuntu Lure Windows 8 Users?

One of the biggest challenges that Windows users will soon face is the transition to an unknown territory called Metro which will be introduced with Windows 8. The PC interface has remained same ever since Apple took the concept from Xerox and made it popular through Lisa. It has improved and evolved over ages, but just like the front seat of a car has remained same for some good reason, just the way QWERTY keyboard has been around for ever.

Added Fri, 2012-02-03 08:14 by Swapnil Bhartiya

How To Install Arista Transcoder In openSUSE

Arista Transcoder is an excellent tool if you want to convert movies from your Android tablets or Phones. It's extremely easy to install Arista on openSUSE.

Added Fri, 2012-02-03 03:19 by Swapnil Bhartiya

Helper Plugin For KATE

Kate is one of the most powerful editors from the KDE world which can be easily installed on other DEs as well.

Added Mon, 2012-01-30 16:46 by Muktware Bureau

Top Open Source Sites Protesting SOPA, PIPA

There are many open source communities which are protesting the anti-freedom bill SOPA and its 'Little Boy' cousin PIPA via their websites. Here are the top 5 open source communities protesting SOPA and PIPA.

Added Wed, 2012-01-18 07:09 by Swapnil Bhartiya

openSUSE Going On SOPA Strike

The Open Source/Free Software community is going on strike on 18th Jan, 2012, to protest against the dangerous SOPA and PIPA bills.

Added Tue, 2012-01-17 17:36 by Swapnil Bhartiya

openSUSE Download Servers Down

The openSUSE servers seems to be running a SOPA blackout protest on its own. The servers are down and users can't download the distro or software packages from the build service.

Added Sat, 2012-01-14 10:53 by Muktware Bureau

Transfer Videos From openSUSE To Kindle Fire, Using Miro

Kindle Fire is a pure Amazon device, where the format support and storage capacity forces user to buy content from Amazon. I like that fact that Kindle Fire supports VP8, the video format open sourced by Google. If you are running openSUSE you can now easily encode and transfer movies to your Kindle Fire using the open source application called Miro.

Added Mon, 2011-12-26 09:51 by Neil Richards

How To Fix Firefox Font Rendering In openSUSE 12.1 Gnome 3

I started using openSUSE only recently. openSUSE needed some work in the beginning as I was new on the OS, but more I used it more I liked it. The only eyesore on openSUSE, with Gnome 3 was font rendering in Firefox. I tried couple of methods but none worked. Then I found the solution and I am sharing with you so that if you are one of such users like me you can get benefit from it. The credit goes to the developer who created the fix -- Muzlocker.

Added Thu, 2011-12-22 11:00 by Swapnil Bhartiya