openSUSE Leap is indeed a huge leap, allowing users to run a distro that has the same DNA of SUSE Linux Enterprise. Like any other operating system, some work is needed to get it set up for optimal ...

I wrote about the latest openSUSE Leap release a few days ago. In that post, I included some details about upgrading an existing openSUSE Leap installation to the new release. Since then, I have ...

Welcome to a regular series here at Forbes that zeroes in on your very first experience with a desktop Linux operating system: the installer. This time around I'm escaping my comfort zone and leaving ...

openSUSE Installation, DVD vs. LiveCD Over the holidays I put a larger disk drive in my Lifebook S2110 (AMD/ATI) laptop, and reinstalled everything from scratch. I added several more Linux ...

It’s no longer a Windows vs Linux world. It’s a Windows and Linux World. And when it comes to the cloud, Linux rules. That creates a unique challenge for Microsoft. Windows doesn’t have tools and ...

I'm kinda baffled by suse's ftp installation bit. I tried doing as their website says, but to no avail. I'd prefer to do the install from cd's, but it appears that's not an option. I'm about to go ...

I want to install Suse along side XP, but I don't have any free space for a new partition. How safe is Resize Partitions during the install. I would hate to loose my current XP install because of ...

My colleague Ed Dulaney introduced me to Linux years ago with the Mandrake (now Mandriva) distribution. I liked it, but in time, I moved over to SUSE 9.0 and fell in love. SUSE is now up to the 11.1 ...

In part one of this article, I talked about some of the different methods you could use to monitor your system, focusing on those included in Red Hat 7.3. Now, we move on to the SuSE distribution.