A Glimpse on GNU/Linux

I was sort of happy with my Debian lenny installation in my laptop. However, the time taken for booting the machine was slightly higher (specially when I set the wlan on dhcp). So, for a change, I have switched to Opensuse 11.2 today. Till now , everything goes well.

Opensuse 11.2 boots in a minute and almost everything is up now. One of the interesting commands specific to opensuse is zypper. It is equivalent to the ‘apt-get’ in debian.

maxin@linux-fqsa:~/Documents> zypper search vim
Reading installed packages…

S | Name                   | Summary                                | Type
–+————————+—————————————-+———–
| avimanager             | Manage your (large) movie (DVD,DivX,-> | package
| avimanager             | Manage your (large) movie (DVD,DivX,-> | srcpackage
| gvim                   | A GUI for Vi                           | package
| gvim-debuginfo         | Debug information for package gvim     | package
| supercollider-vim      | SuperCollider support for Vim          | package
i | vim                    | Vi IMproved                            | package
| vim                    | Vi IMproved                            | srcpackage
i | vim-base               | Vi IMproved                            | package
| vim-base-debuginfo     | Debug information for package vim-base | package
i | vim-data               | Vi IMproved                            | package
| vim-debuginfo          | Debug information for package vim      | package
| vim-debugsource        | Debug sources for package vim          | package
| vim-enhanced           | A version of the VIM editor which in-> | package
| vim-enhanced-debuginfo | Debug information for package vim-en-> | package
| vim-plugin-devhelp     | Developer’s Help Program for GNOME     | package

After copying the firmware for Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN , the wireless lan is working and I am able to connect to the internet.

One of the annoying thing about opensuse was the absence of mplayer or vlc player with the installation media itself. We need to setup the players and resolve the dependencies by ourselves as described in this URL:

http://www.susegeek.com/media-player/install-configure-mplayer-free-opensource-media-player-in-opensuse/

Since, I wanted to wash my clothes, I have decided to go with the easiest way (can’t think of spending time for a generic application like Mplayer after using debian (apt-get) for a long time).

The mplayer installation steps in Opensuse 11.2 is as listed below:

sudo zypper ar http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/11.2 mplayer

sudo zypper mr -r mplayer

sudo zypper in mplayer

Well done ! … It’s done

mplayer in opensuse 11.2

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