Lessons for Lizards

Understanding openSUSE

$Date: 2007-06-28 10:41:08 +0200 (Do, 28 Jun 2007) $

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07/30/2007

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Table of Contents

About This Book and Lessons for Lizards
Feedback
Authors
Source Code
About the Making of This Manual
1. KDE
KDE Configuration for Administrators
Customizing KDE
Managing Digital Images with digiKam
Customizing the Look of digiKam HTML Galleries
Creating CD Covers with Kover
2. GNOME
3. Installation
Installation on System with less than 256 MB RAM
4. System Administration
Using Several Keyboard Layouts
Using SSH without Entering Your Password
Creating a Bootable USB Stick
Configuring a Basic Home Network
Using Swap Files
How-To Create 10 GB File Instantly (with dd)
How-To View Kernel Configuration
How-To Connect Graphically from Remote: FreeNX
How-To Start Text-mode Shared-sessions (with screen)
Looking Glass 3D
Using Qemu: the Open-Source x86 PC Emulator
How-To Change Your MAC Address
How-To Access COM Port (RS-232 client/server)
How-To Show Amount of Video RAM
Interoperability: Software Equivalents Table
How-To Connect Remotely via Telnet
How-To Enable Mouse in Console (with gpm)
How-To Search for Abbreviations (with wtf)
How-To Customize Console
Interoperability: Accessing Linux Filesystems from Windows
Using VirtualBox: the new era User-Friendly x86 PC Virtualizer
Virtualization Theory
Building a Linux Kernel
Managing System Configuration Profiles with SCPM
A. GNU Free Documentation License
PREAMBLE
APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
VERBATIM COPYING
COPYING IN QUANTITY
MODIFICATIONS
COMBINING DOCUMENTS
COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
TRANSLATION
TERMINATION
FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

List of Figures

1.1. Configuring the KIOSK Admin Tool
1.2. Adding a Profile
1.3. Setting Up a Profile
1.4. Setting Up Themes
1.5. Assigning Profiles
1.6. The Profile in Use
1.7. Analyzing the Snow Theme
1.8. Kover Main Window
1.9. Automatically Created Cover with CDDB Information
1.10. Customized Cover
4.1. YaST: Basic SCPM Configuration
4.2. YaST: Configure SCPM Users
4.3. Configuring Resource Groups

List of Tables

1.1.