A little digrression - Mandriva installation running...

Sadly, Ansys 13 seems to not be fully functional on debian based distros so... damn. :(

Anyway, the installation is running smoothly...

I dislike the keyboard layout choice menus, it doesn't let you view or test the keyboard like K/Ubintu do...

I really like the advanced options for partitioning, but the 107 GB partition format seems to last forever???

There's no progress bar, either... I'm worried that it hung... ???? It showed a progress bar after over half an hour, when it was done? OK.. .weird.

Choosing Gnome and off we go! And here we have the Windows progress bar: the progress bar is moving, but the time remaining is going UP! Thankfully it over-estimates for cca 10 minutes.

A bit worried about installing it to the sdb7 partition, lol! There's some post-install setup (root/usr passwords, user groups, etc, something odd (update check...?) and then a bootloader prep. Which takes... a LONG while. over 10 minutes!!!

I hope it finds both ubuntu and windows... and it seems to have found windows, at least, I am hoping, as you get the final screen with "check if it's OK" for time zones, GRUB, and graphic drivers - it allows for nVidia I think.

Finally the updates and it's done...

The installation in itself is "linuxoidly simple", it asks for very little information and requires you to do very little stuff in order to install. This doesn't mean that you actually can't. ;) The only thing I really did miss was the ability to test my keyboard settings after choosing them; as Ubuntu allows (and Kubuntu displays your keyboard layout so you can check).

What I really HATED is the fact that it generated my computer name and didn't ask for me to specify it. A$$.

The installation was VERY fast, as it usually is on virtual machines, and it quickly booted me into - whoah?! It wasn't done yet? Apparently SuSE requires to install, then reboot, then spend some time doing "automatic configuration" of your system which takes a serious few minutes. Not cool. Eventually it boots up and starts with a rather irritating "have a lot of fun" screen, like windoze.

OK, OK, I'm being biased.

The look and feel is pretty much like Kubuntu; which made it easy to use, however:

Package manager

The package manager (from yast) is MUCH more user-friendly than Kubuntu's. In Kubuntu, I just use Synaptic, but yast is much better than synaptic. Well done, guys! :)

Konsole

Installing yakuake from the pak manager was easy enough, as well as customizing it. Setting GUI preferences works better than in K/Ubuntu.

Virtualbox has issues with the F12 key that launches yakuake, though - when I hit it, my Host yakuake gets launched - so you'll need to launch it by touching the screen edge.

As a Ubuntu user, I hate the sudo su concept.

I'm happy to say that changing computer name through yast now works when you change it in a single place; you had to change it in ethernet settings AND hostname dialog (so you'd do it through konsole and leave it be)

The yast2 -i command launches an incredibly ugly dos-like thing in the konsole which "guides" you through the installation. I want aptitude back. :(

• Open SuSE comes with installed Firefox; like Ubuntu and unlike Kubuntu where you get an installer that sometimes doesn't work?!
• Without any extra installations, yoube (flash) does work! Not so in Ubuntu, while Kubuntu has no problems once you DO manage to install a browser (duh)
• Start Amarok and it... can't play mp3. OK,
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Ubuntu gdm theme after 9.04

After Karmic, setting the gdm looks up became tiring. I always forget how to do it:

sudo -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-properties

'sprobably not the clever-est way out there, it simply allows you to set up your gnome theme as your gdm theme, and then use ubuntu-tweak or something to fix it up a bit more...

Kubuntu KDE upgrade

I installed the Lynx... and found out I'm running KDE 4.4.2 when 4.4.4. was the latest version. Here's what worked:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

....and, came from here:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3112252.0

:)

Komodo installation

Konodo Edit - not the lizard, the editor - is as of late my favorite code editor under linux and windoze. (What, me uze windoze? Yes I am guilty of that too...) Exceptionally, I do all my C++ programming in VisualStudio and QtEditor, but for everything else, atm, there's Komodo.

Komodo doesn't exist in the repositories, so you can download your lynx version from their home site. Komodo Edit is freeware, while you'll have to pay some for Komodo IDE, but if you like it - it's worth it! :)

After unpacking it, just run sh ./install.sh from the appropriate folder; I leave the path as default but of course you can change it, and voila - it works!

Also, since it's something you use a LOT - 'cause you wouldn't be installing it if you didn't need it! - set it in your PATH, like this:
sudo ln -s "/home/myuser/Software/Komodo-Edit-5/bin/komodo" /usr/local/bin/komodo

phpmyadmin, apache2 and MySQL installation under Ubuntu (Smart Kitty)

Playing with new Lucid, gotta admit this little kitty is pi$$ing me off on various levels... I am also daring to touch kUbuntu (no I am NOT capitalizing that k until it proves itself worthy of it!!!), and it's screwing up with the sound...

ANYWAY, since I've been ridden with web app development (which is nowhere NEAR what I should be doing! ), I had a need to install apache, phpmyadmin and all the other nice stuffs required.

So let's beeegin! :)

To install all the required stuff, windoze has a nice little app called wamp. Since there's no wamp(ire) for ubuntu, we do it like they do it on discovery channel - text mode!

To install apache, mysql and phpmyadmin:
sudo apt-get install php5 mysql-server apache2 phpmyadmin

Don't forget to set up all the passwords and select apache as the default server for phpmyadmin. If you forgot to set apache as the server, you can fix it up by reconfiguring phpmyadmin:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow phpmyadmin

That done, test the localhost and it should tell you IT WORKS! :)

However, phpmyadmin will probably mess with you, here's the quickfix to include the phpMyadmin-shipped Apache configuration into Apache:
sudo ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf

It should work once you restart the apache:
cd /usr/sbin/
sudo apache2ctl restart

And it should allll be up and running!