A couple of days ago I installed OpenSuSE 12.1 on my laptop after running OpenSuSE 11.4 for quite a while. Upgradeing was no big deal. OpenSuSE has a nice tutorial on that. The new version finally supports the integrated mobile modem out of the box which is very nice. The only annoyance I got is [...]
For my podcast project I got five new root servers which are all connected internally through a switch. Two of the servers are connected directly over a crossover cable. Those two servers have 3 NICs, the other 2 servers have 2 NICs. I share the website’s HTML, images and other resources through the NFS server [...]
Nowadays OpenSUSE comes with almost all packages I need to run a fast and reliable webserver. As I have written before I use nginx and php-fpm for our podcast service. You can get up-to-date packages of nginx through OpenSuSE’s build service. I have not yet found a RPM package of php-fpm though. Therefore I compile [...]
I had to set up a server. The hoster offers openSUSE 11.0 at the moment but no openSUSE 11.1 yet. As I like to go with the latest and greatest I decided to upgrade the system to openSUSE 11.1 after using the hoster’s installation image for openSUSE 11.0. I searched on the web how a [...]
The newest version of OpenSuSE got released today. OpenSuSE 11.1 brings more than 230 new features the press release says. As I keep my systems up to date thanks to smart and all the repositories only a number of these new feature are missing on my OpenSuSE 11.0 installations. The most important reason I quickly [...]