Ebook: The Developer Shortcut Guide to SUSE Linux

Application development has a long and interesting history. From the switchboard plugs that programmed the first computers to today’s Web applications, a lot has happened. Academic discussions ebb and flow around topics such as software design, architecture, and methodologies in a quest to determine whether programming is an engineering discipline or an art or neither.

Tutorial: Install Printer Canon Pixma 1980 in Linux OpenSUSE 12.2

How to install and configure driver printer Canon Pixma 1980 in operating system OpenSUSE 12.2. In this case, use for 64 bit, but it also can use for 32 bit with the same procedure.

This is step-by-step how to install and configure driver printer Canon Pixma 1980 in OpenSUSE 12.2 64 bit:

Tutorial: Running Windows Applications in OpenSUSE using PlayOnLinux

One type of document that is ofter used in companies to share files / documents to the other party is Microsoft Office. Application Open Office or Libre Office that is able to read and revise files Microsoft Office is very helpful process to share document, but sometimes Office files that are opened / saved by Libre Office or Open Office is not 100% same. So, the alternative is to run Windows Applications, namely Microsoft Office in Linux. In this article, we try to run Microsoft Office in Linux OpenSUSE.

One of applications in Linux is easy to install and used for this purpose is PlayOnLinux application. PlayOnLinux application using Wine to run that application, but the process is made simple and intuitive.

Here is the process of running Microsoft Office 2007 on Linux openSUSE 12.2 using PlayOnLinux.

Note: Although the run on Linux, Microsoft Office application or any other application that requires a license is still proprietary.

Tutorial: Install VLC in openSUSE 12.3

VLC Media Player is a magical software that can play a variety of audio and video files. VLC is also able to play multimedia files from CDs, VCDs, and DVDs, even capable of streaming from the internet. The advantage compared to other media player software is owned completeness codecs, so VLC is able to play almost all audio and video file formats. VLC can run on various operating systems, such as Windows, Mac and Linux.

This article describes the tutorial install VLC in linux openSUSE. There are several ways to install vlc, ie: