Tips and Tricks

From openSUSE

Installation & Software Management

• Howto create Install DVD from CDs
• How to do a Network Install
• Install on PC that can't boot from CD

Architecture & Platforms

• PPC Partitioning Howto partition your Mac (necessary before you can install SUSE Linux on it).

RAID/LVM

• How to install SUSE Linux on software RAID
• Areca Howto - How to install and configure Areca Hardware RAID controllers

Update/Install Software

• Updating KDE and other software via YaST
• Add Package Repositories to YaST - Usage of package-repositories such as Packman (multimedia packages).

Kernel & Hardware

General

• Qemu with kqemu kernel module support
• Debugging of ACPI suspend problems

Graphics

• ATI Driver HOWTO
• NVIDIA
• NVidia Suspend HOWTO

Hard Disk

Kernel Flavours

Peripherals

Printers

• Printer Sharing with Linux clients - using CUPS
• Printer Sharing with Windows clients - using CUPS/SAMBA

Scanners

Sound

UPS

USB

Virtualization

• Set up VMware on SUSE Linux
• Recovering VMware Workstation After a Kernel Update

Networks & Services

Bluetooth

Diskless

IRC

LAN

Network Filesystems

• Open-iSCSI and SUSE Linux

Modems

P2P

• BitTorrent and openSUSE

PPP

Security & Anonymity

Wireless LAN

• Wireless Network Card Installation configure your wireless network card with ndiswrapper
• Atheros madwifi
• Atheros ndiswrapper

Remote Access

Software

Internet

Firefox

• Disable IPv6 for Firefox
• Enable HTTP Pipelining

Desktop

• Desktop Customization Tips Tiny tips for convenient Desktop
• Introduction to VIM the text editor.
• Enable VIM Syntax Highlighting

Multimedia

Audio

Other

Server Configuration

General

Telnet Server HOWTO

Web Server

• Zope HOWTO How to install zope with it's own python library
• Tomcat HOWTO How to install Tomcat and configure the jk connector

Mail Server

• Mail server HOWTO How to configure your mailserver
• Cleaning your IMAP account

System Related

General

• Responsiveness
• Administer with Sudo
• Serial Null Modem Connection

File Systems

• How-To Create 10 GB file instantly with "dd"

Burning CDs/DVDs

• Burn a Data CD

Users

X Server

• Using ssh-agent globally for X session

Desktop Environments

KDE

GNOME

XGL

• Using Xgl on SUSE Linux

Gaming

Yet to be indexed Howtos

• Creating Jigsaw Download Images for DVD and CD Sets
• Preloading Thunderbird
• Running and debugging tomcat5 applications from within Eclipse