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As I mentioned before I use a IBM Thinkpad T41p. This laptop comes with the Atheros wireless card and that card only has a binary driver so it’s not included in the distribution. So setting it up requires a bit more work.

Ok so I crank up YaST and do some looking around. Turns out I can add a bunch of repos in a single click. However, one notable missing repo was the madwifi repo. So, click on add and put in the madwifi.org/suse/10.3 link and voila I have everything I need to get wireless on my laptop.

Well…I went to get some 3d and cool XGL stuff going and it was so simple that I won’t bother documenting it. I simply clicked on enable Desktop Effects and voila. Done.

As of late…I’ve been playing around with it. Only added eclipse and NVU so far. The configuration for everything I need has been too simple.

Novell’s openSUSE 10.3 was released recently and I’ve finally made the time to start playing with it. Much to my surprise, it’s coming along nicely. I’m going to outline my experiences in the next few posts.

Today we’ll go through an install and the quirks therein. The install itself went fine. I always partition using ext3 (the default now) and separate “/home” from “/”. SUSE uses the newer libata which sees the drives funky, but who cares because it boots. Well sort of. The first reboot failed with “No operating system”. Ok. Well most likely that means that the MBR has no boot record. Great. Boot to “rescue mode” and run grub-install and install the boot record onto hd0,1. Why hd0,1? Because I put swap on partition 0 and / on partition 1. Ok reboot and install proceeds. Funky.

Other than that, the installation went fine. It’s rather quick and I now have options to install the basic repos. Nice.

Next iteration will be my first experiences with getting the “rest” of the system functional. I use a IBM Thinkpad T41p so the Atheros card support is not included since it’s a binary driver.

The Mono Project: You Might Expect the Unexpected | Linux Journal

I find articles like this interesting if only for one reason - human nature. It is natural for one to dismiss what one does not know. The author did just that and then come to find out that when the author was educated on the topic actuality set in hard.

If you pay attention to browser based application development today, .Net is massive. Most likely due to the ease of getting training (smooth marketing play) and the cheap development staff on the market today.

The linux community is in need of updated education across the board. It is not easy to fight marketing unless you can market yourself. If we (and YES I am part of the community) would step up, educate ourselves further, and be much more open minded we could make a serious dent in the market share that MS .NET and others have today.

I’m glad that the author chose to get educated on the topic and open his mind to see what MONO is all about. It is a very cool project that has significant merit. It’s not for just .NET applications and allows for a lot more than windows to linux portability of applications.

This article shows a simple way to create a script that will pull IP addresses for specific open files. Great simple article that is easy to follow and explains each step!