My sister Terry sent down her laptop PC because it was running Windows XP which is no longer supported…support ended 4/6. I wanted to install Linux Mint but the current LTS is just ending and the new isn’t out yet. Wiped off XP after backing up data. Laptop is an older Dell Dimension. So I …
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Solydk
Found out when I got the Networking “waiting for authorization” problem in Solydk that I can simply log off then back on to fix the problem rather than reboot. Then reenter the Kwallet password. Much quicker. SolydK seems pretty nice!
SolydK
Replace my fall back Linux Distro [see 11/19/2013] from Suse to solydK 64 bit. SolydK uses Debian as their base. Solydk is their KDE version. It’s a rolling release. It comes with a Steam installer. Comes with all codecs installed. Major updates: Gimp from v2.6 to v2.8 [single window mode] LibreOffice from v3.5 to v4.0 …
openSUSE 13.1: Frustrations
openSUSE 13.1: Frustrations. Trying to install Oracle VM Virtualbox. Found RPM and install seemed to go OK. However trying to start existing VMs report that Kernel modules may need to be recompiled. Command gived errors out reporting “Make” not installed. Once again trying to install “make” using YAST shows a rediculous amount of dependencies needing …
openSUSE 13.1: Recap!
openSUSE 13.1: Recap! Codecs required a little work to get working. Still, probably at least 50 times easier than older distros from a few years back. But still, harder than it should be in 2013. This stuff just worked in Linux Mint. This is a long term supported release…at least 3 years. After installing…some applications …
openSUSE 13.1
openSUSE 13.1: Finally got VLC and mPlayer working, using 4 terminal commands: I think the link was: http://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/caf4926/opensuse-13-1-multi-media-restricted-format-installation-guide-149/ This also resulted in many packages [157]…but they all seemed to make sense [lib…] and most were small downloads. No 80MB of wallpaper. If history is any indication…VLC or codecs will be just as hard to install …
openSUSE 13.1
openSUSE 13.1: Tried to install VLC again with “one click” install. Webpage had changed some. Noticed it defaulted to “Yast 1-click install” instead of the previous “apper”. This time it installed OK…but still having codec problems trying to play YouTube videos. Found a “one click” install for codecs. But once again it wanted to install …
openSUSE 13.1
openSUSE 13.1: Installed Thunderbird and Krita with no problems!
openSUSE 13.1
Restore openSUSE 13.1 from a stable Clonezilla image. Tried to “one click” install of VLC again from openSUSE. The VLC site also has “one click” installs…but not for this version yet. This time failed “Dependency resolution failed”. Also tried to install with YAST2 but it wanted to download everything including the kitchen sink….77 MB of …
openSUSE 13.1
Download/Install openSUSE 13.1 64 bit. Linux Mint is basically headed by one person, and I felt it might be good to have another distro to fall back on. Suse is one of the oldest distros. Wanted to install Flash and VLC to start. Flash installed fine. VLC installed but wouldn’t play any of my existing …