So you are all excited about the new Opensuse 11.1. Me too. So you want to do an in-place upgrade? Me too. Read on… Thanks to Benjamin over at: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/bweber/entry/upgrading_opensuse_103/ …I adapted his Opensuse 10.3 to 11.0 in-place upgrade to be an 11.0 to 11.1 cheat-sheet-like thing. I have followed these steps now on a [...]
The zypper tool in openSUSE 11 has been catching me off-guard. I guess previous versions were like this too, but for some reason I never noticed it or it never bothered me…. Anyway, here’s a tip or two about zypper‘s behavior… I’d been noticing that the “PackageKit” update applet in the GUI Panel seemed to [...]
This is a follow-up to an earlier, similar post about Opensuse 10.3 and iFolder 3.2/3.4. Please follow the link to read the history, or this post might not make much sense on its own… I’m still loving my OpenSUSE 11 installation, a few days after release. Except for the fact that I have to re-initialize [...]
So here I am, writing my first post from my new OpenSUSE 11 installation. Pretty darned slick so far! I must say that the “README” (a.k.a. Release Notes)– which can be viewed during the file copy part of the installation process — is full of important info. I strongly recommend reading it, especially if you’re [...]
