I recently upgraded Adobe Reader to the latest version available on Adobe’s site, and I lost Firefox embedded reader for PDF’s. On 64 bit systems, openSUSE adopts the nspluginwrapper plugin to be able to use 32 bit plugins for Firefox. As a consequence, a little of configuration is necessary when upgrading Adobe Reader. The steps are the following: Install Adobe Reader 8 from www.adobe.com using the RPM. Open a terminal as root (use the su command and insert root’s password) and type: ln /opt/Adobe/Reader8/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so /usr/lib/browser-plugins/nppdf.so This will create a symbolic link to the plugin library. In the same terminal, type: nspluginwrapper -i /opt/Adobe/Reader8/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so to configure the plugin with nspluginwrapper.…
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Mandriva 2008: simply powerful
I have quickly tried Mandriva One 2008 first through the GNOME live CD, and it looked so good that I decided to try it more by installing it on my desktop. Up to now, I’m very positively impressed by this distribution, due to the great care they put in details, the fresh artwork and its simplicity. The live CD contains a full version of desktop and it is installable to reduce the download size for users with slow connections. After you boot in the live CD, you find a link on the desktop to install it on your hard drive, through a very simple guided procedure which leads you…
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openSUSE for education and science
The openSUSE project has recently started an education project to group the educational applications, in order to make them easily available. The goals of the project, together with the necessary information to take part to it, are reported on the openSUSE Edu page, managed by the Education Team. A Desktop applications list and a Server application list are available, which can be installed on openSUSE through the Build Service. Some scientific application and libraries, like maxima and openMPI, are available also through the science repository, always hosted on the openSUSE buildservice.
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Samba and openSUSE 10.3
Using samba with openSUSE might cause some issues in certain conditions due to the presence of SuSEfirewall2, which blocks network high ports of your system. However, it is possible to configure the network to allow samba to work properly. The prodecure is simple, and can be done using YaST, as follows: Use YaST -> Network services -> Samba server and Samba client tools to configure samba accordingly to your needs, and select to open the firewall ports. This properly sets SuSEfirewall2 to open the static samba ports 137, 138, 139 and 445, but doesn’t open high ports, required for some features like network browsing. Open YaST -> System ->…