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I recently upgraded my home network from 100 Mb/s to 1 Gb/s by replacing the switches. The main house switch is an unmanaged 1U rack-mounted switch, with a second desktop switch. Out of pure interest, I took the opportunity to do a little bit of speed testing to see how much of a difference upgrading the switches made in terms
OpenSuSE 11.4 was released back on 11 March so this weekend I took the plunge and upgraded my main PC from 11.3 to 11.4. And less than two hours later, I had the best ever SuSE running on my PC. Here's how I got on... SuSE offer two methods of upgrading, the first being an on-line update and the second
The latest version of OpenSuSE Linux, 11.4, has just been released and it's chock full of new features. The replacement for OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, gets its first major outing, KDE gets bumped to 4.6 and Gnome comes in at 2.32. There's a also a pile of updates to applications, including Empathy, RhythmBox, Amarok, Totem, Evince and Shotwell. For developers, GTK 3
Some of you may recall that early last summer, I left my long-term Linux partner OpenSuSE for Canonical's Ubuntu - the post is here. I thought it was going to be forever but I'm afraid it hasn't worked out and SuSE has taken me back. The original problem was that I couldn't get SuSE 11.2 to install on new hardware
Sigh. I love Linux but there are times when you realise it's never going to take over the world... I was working with Amarok, but the program crashed completely every time it hit a certain file in my audio library. This wasn't a big deal but being a helpful soul, when I was presented with the option to send crash
Have you ever downloaded some data off the 'net only to find it's in a compressed or archive file format that your PC doesn't have a helper app for? Or you're fixing up a friend's PC, you download some drivers and ditto, you can't get them unpacked? If so, you'll be interested in WobZIP. It's a web site where you
The latest version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, 10.10 will be released tomorrow (if all goes to plan). Otherwise known as the Maverick Meerkat, this release focuses on improving the desktop experience and stability rather than radically updating it. As usual, the kernel has been updated along with the Gnome desktop and there has been one change to the default