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June 30, 2016 4:25 pm

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SUSE to unlock technical opportunities within your business

Getting your skills up to date or becoming an expert even, is something we all fancy. The challenge however is that our time is often limited in this fast pacing world. Because I know what it's like to have limited time available while trying to keep my skills up high, I like to point out […]

Categories: Desktop, Enterprise Linux, Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE, SUSE Manager Management Pack for Microsoft System Center, Technical Solutions

By: mikewillis

November 14, 2014 4:24 pm

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Customizing the appearance of GDM in SLED 12

SLED 12 ships with GNOME 3.10 which means GDM 3. GDM 3 provides very little scope for customising how it looks. In this article I'll describe some pros and cons of the officially provided ways of customising GDM 3 and how you can go further customising by hacking. Testing changes will require you to […]

Tags: Customizing, GDM, GNOME

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, Technical Solutions

By: coolguys-suse

June 3, 2013 1:06 am

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How to create a custom virtual machine running SUSE Linux Enterprise by using Azure Management Portal

In this article you will learn how to create a custom virtual machine From Gallery in the Management Portal. This method provides more options for configuring the virtual machine when you create it, such as the connected resources, the DNS name and network connectivity if needed. Sign into the Windows Azure Management Portal. On the […]

Categories: Cloud Computing, SLES on Azure, SUSE in the Cloud, Technical Solutions

By: ataschner

December 8, 2010 4:18 pm

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Creating add-on products with YaST

SUSE Linux Enterprise ships with an "Add-On Creator" YaST module, which allows you to create and maintain custom defined products to be installed on SLE. To ensure system integrity, the product and packages must be signed with a GPG key. In case this key does not already exist a the target machine, it needs […]

Tags: Customizing, SDK, YaST

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: mikewillis

November 16, 2010 5:35 pm

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Relocating Firefox's urlclassifier3.sqlite file

urlclassifier3.sqlite is the file that Firefox (as of version 3) uses to store information about websites that are known to host Phishing and/or malware. The data is regularly updated from Google. As typing 'urlclassifier3.sqlite' in to Google and spending a few minutes looking through the results will show, It can be something of […]

Tags: Customizing, Firefox

Categories: Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, Technical Solutions

By: mikewillis

August 6, 2010 2:07 pm

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Building Simple RPMs of Arbitrary Files

Something I've found very useful when managing machines running SLED is building my own rpms. If I want to put scripts on to the machines I package them as an rpm and then if I need to update them, I can put the new versions in to the rpm, increase the version number and push […]

Tags: Customizing, RPMs

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, Technical Solutions

By: mikewillis

September 22, 2009 3:09 pm

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Hacking on the Slab

SUSE distros ship with three GNOME menus, the Slab being the default. In my opinion none of the menus get everything right. They either have too little customisation for my needs or they suffer from slightly clunky, even outright annoying, behaviour. I've looked at all three and ended up back with the Slab. What puts […]

Tags: Customizing, GNOME

Categories: openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, Technical Solutions

By: ab

September 8, 2009 1:54 pm

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LJDT: Workspaces

For a while now I have taken for granted the marvelous functionality commonly referred-to as "workspaces" in the X window system. Anybody using a graphical interface with X already probably has this functionality present by default and in many distributions the feature of multiple workspaces is even enabled by default The idea behind this […]

Tags: Customizing, Workspaces

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, Technical Solutions

By: mikewillis

June 11, 2009 2:14 pm

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How to Make GNOME Desktop Effects Disabled by Default

Two things made me think that Desktop Effects should be disabled by default. Firstly, I have discovered that Desktop Effects get disabled when Mathematica 6 or 7 is run. if Mathematica causes problems, so potentially may other applications. Secondly, on a couple of occasions I've seen Desktop Effects get disabled during a session for no […]

Tags: Customizing, GNOME

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, Technical Solutions

By: mikewillis

January 14, 2009 1:11 pm

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How to have one or more variants of an AutoYaST profile without having to maintain them

Say you maintain a bunch of machines running some SUSE variant, you install them using AutoYaST so they're all identical but you find that sometimes you want to install a machine in a way which is slightly different to normal. For example, you want to be able to re-install a machine whilst preserving the contents […]

Tags: AutoYaST, Customizing

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions