Archive for October 2007

How do I get the Novell Client to run on Opensuse10.3?

…submitted by Brian, here’s his original question: “Have you tried, or had any luck installing the Novell Client on this distro yet?” Brian goes on to explain that he is running 64-bit, and having dependency-related install errors with the client. So just to come clean here, let me state that for this post/discussion/experiment I’m using [...]

What Cisco VPN Client will work on Opensuse10.3?

Did you notice the theme here as of late? Can you tell I’m gradually going through all kinds of software installs on my new Opensuse10.3 laptop? Are you noticing that nothing I try to re-install from Opensuse10.2 seems to work on 10.3? Here’s another example: The Cisco VPN client. I’ve been using version 4.8.00.0490-k9 on [...]

Why won’t Console1 work on Opensuse10.3?

I know, I know. Use iManager. Whatever. Look — No matter whether you like it or not, Console1 is still an important tool to us Novell administrators. And that is why I installed it on my Opensuse10.3 machine, and ran into this problem… The problem is the new Java jre that’s in the Opensuse10.3 distro [...]

How do I get Opensuse10.3 to run an iFolder3 client against older iFolder3 servers?

I admit it. I thought I was out of luck. Let me explain… You see, I run various versions of iFolder3 servers (home is 3.4, corporate is 3.2, customers, etc) that I depend on. But, I could not resist jumping to Opensuse10.3 as soon as it came out. Right after getting the OS installed, migrating [...]

New Releases Galore!

Holy cow, folks. I’m up to my neck in new releases. I’m like a kid in a candy store, and I’ve got a bunch of stuff installed but I don’t know what to play with the most! Check out the short list of things that were *just* released (or soon-to-be released) that I’m playing with: [...]