1. OpenSuse 13.2 Mustafa R. Abbas Abdulah T. Tuaama
2. History Founded on September 2, 1992 in Germany, under the
name Gesellschaft fr Software- und Systementwicklung mbH (S.u.S.E.
GmbH)
3. Overview The openSUSE Project community, sponsored by SUSE,
develops and maintains SUSE Linux distributions components.
openSUSE Linux is the successor to "SUSE Linux Professional".Beyond
the distribution, the openSUSE Project provides a web portal for
community involvement. The community developing openSUSE
collaboratively with its corporate sponsors through the Open Build
Service, writing documentation, designing artwork, fostering
discussion on open mailing lists and in Internet Relay Chat
channels, and improving the openSUSE site through its wiki
interface. openSUSE aims to offer a stable base and allow users to
use the Open Build Service to get additional or more up to date
software, or even a rolling release version with the name
Tumbleweed. Moreover, the system should be flexible and make it
easy to re-purpose for specific goals like running a web- or mail
server. Like most Linux distributions, openSUSE includes both a
default graphical user interface (GUI) and a command line interface
option. During installation, the user may choose among KDE SC,
GNOME, LXDE and Xfce GUIs. openSUSE supports thousands of software
packages across the full range of Free software / open source
development
4. Chapter One Introduction 1.1 5 Reason to use openSuse 13.2
1.2 What features does openSUSE offer 1.3 Feature highlights 1.4
Installed Applications
5. 1.1 Five Reasons to Try OpenSUSE 1. Stability and Power 2.
Integrated Software Choices 3. Continuous Updates 4. Administrative
Tools 5. The Freedom of Linux
6. 1.2 What features does openSUSE offer Full desktop operating
system Full office suite included Enjoy your Internet experience,
worry-free Have fun with media Live mobile Simply change We back
you up Full and accurate source code
8. 1.4 Installed Applications Surf the Web with Firefox Mozilla
Firefox is the default web browser. It's one of the world's leading
web browsers. Alternatives to consider: Rekonq, Opera, Chromium,
Konqueror
9. Office Productivity with LibreOffice LibreOffice is a
complete office suite with word processing, spreadsheets,
presentation, drawing and more. It's very compatible with Microsoft
Office Alternatives to consider: Calligra, Abiword
10. Listen to Music with Amarok Amarok is a feature rich music
player that handles your music, podcasts, portable music player or
iPod etc. Read about codec installation in a later chapter.
Alternatives to consider: Clementine, JuK, Qmmp
11. Watch Video with Kaffeine Kaffeine plays videos and DVDs -
and even TV if you have a digital TV-card (dvb). Read about codec
installation in a later chapter. Alternatives to consider: VLC,
SMPlayer, UMPlayer
12. Image Editing with GIMP GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation
Program) is a very powerful image editing application Alternatives
to consider: Gwenview (only very basic editing)
13. E-mail, Calendar, News feeds and more with Kontact Kontact
is a fullblown PIM (personal information management) suite,
combining e-mail, calendar, news feeds, addressbook and more in one
place. Each of the Kontact components (KMail, KOrganizer, Akregator
etc.) can also be used as standalone applications Alternatives to
consider: Mozilla Thunderbird
14. Chapter Two H.W Support & Installation 2.1 H.W Support
2.2 Installation 2.2.1 Install OpenSuse With out any Os 2.2.2
Install OpenSuse With Virtuall Machine 2.2.3 Dual Boot
15. 2.1 Hardware Support System Minimum Requirements CPU:
Pentium III 500 MHz or higher processor (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or
higher or any AMD64 or Intel64 processor recommended) RAM: 1 GB
physical RAM (2 GB recommended) Disk Space: 5,0 GB for a normal
installation (more recommended) Sound and Graphics Card: Most
modern cards are supported
16. 2.2.1 The Installation without any Operating System
-Welcome Screen.
17. Start Installation
18. Language, Keyboard and Licence
19. Installation Options
20. Partitioning
21. Clock and Time Zone
22. Desktop Selection
23. Create New User
24. Installation Settings
25. Actual Installation
26. 2.2.2 The Installation With Virtual Box (Virtual Machine)
Virtual Box is deceptively simple yet also very powerful. It can
run everywhere from small embedded systems or desktop class
machines all the way up to datacenter deployments and even Cloud
environments
27. open virtual box and create a new virtual machine
28. Memory size
29. Hard drive
30. Hard drive file
31. Choice storage On Physical Hard Drive
32. Select isoimage file that we download it or from disc of
openSuse
33. 2.2.3 Install OpenSuse With another Operation System (Dual
Boot) First we must install Windows 7 Before OpenSuse, and then
make boot For opensuse. The first step is same in any installation
but when we reach this step we should change the place
34. Choose Custom Partitioning (for experts) and click
Next
35. Make a swap partition, 2-4 GB is fine.
36. Choose Mount partition Choose /boot/efi Click Finish
37. Chapter There User Interface 3.1 Graphical User Interface
(GUI) 3.1.1 KDE 3.1.2 GNOME 3.2 Command line Interface 3.2.1
Managing Software with Command Line Tools 3.2.1.1 Zypper 3.2.1.2
RPMthe Package Manager
38. 3.1 Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) You can customize
nearly every last inch of your Linux installation to fit your
liking, and it starts with choosing the right desktop environment.
Whether you're a Linux beginner or you're just looking for a new
interface, here's an overview of how desktop environments work and
how to pick the right one for you. Windows and Mac OS X come with
pretty specific graphical interfaces (you know, the windows, the
skin, the system toolbars, etc.) that aren't really built for
customization. With Linux, you can fully customize not only how
your desktop looks, but even its functionality, and the settings
available in its preferences. If you're a beginning Linux user, you
may have heard of popular desktop environments like GNOME, KDE,
XFCE, Openbox, or othersbut what do they all mean? Here, we'll
discuss what desktop environments are, and how to try new ones out
on your existing Linux installation.
39. What Are Window Managers and Desktop Environments? While
Windows and Mac OS X were designed around a GUI and, for the most
part, are fixed to that specific GUI, Linux's GUI is completely
separate from the operating system itself. It's split up into a few
different parts: atop the command-line operating system is the X
window system, which is what draws the GUI onto your screen. On top
of that is what's called your window manager, which allows you to
manage the windows on your screen: move them around, drag and drop
files, scroll up and down, and so on
40. X Window Basic concepts Often a new Linux user will read
references to X Window. X Window (commonly known as X11 or X)
provides Linux PCs a graphical environment, in which different
graphical desktops can run (giving the user a graphical appearance
that is typical of the OS of modern computers, such as seen in the
Mac, or in MS-Windows). Without X Window one would only have a
simple ascii prompt/shell type environment on their Linux PC (with
no graphics). In Linux X Window, to obtain a user friendly
Graphical User Environment (GUI), on top of X Window runs a Window
Manager or a Desktop Environment. In such a case an openSUSE Linux
user is then typically running their PC in what is referred to as
run level 5. (Note in a Mac and in MS-Windows, there is typically
no such clear distinction between the ASCII shell, and the upper
level graphical environment, and hence Mac/MS-Windows have only one
GUI, while a Linux user can choose from many).
41. X Window - Aspects X Window is very powerful, in that its
architecture is deliberately structured, with separate "client" and
"server" aspects. For a one PC user, both the "client" and the
"server" run on the same PC (and hence the this client/server
division is transparent). But X Window is designed such that the
"client" and "server" can be run on different machines. Hence, for
example, with X11 and the Secure Shell (ssh) program (see below),
an X Window application can run on a remote Linux PC, but with the
graphics window of the same application being displayed locally on
a "local" Linux PC. This is very useful for remote support/access
not only on a LAN, but also across the Internet Four of the more
popular desktops available for openSUSE are: KDE GNOME
42. KDE KDE Software Compilation is the innovative Free
Software suite that increases your pleasure and productivity The
default graphical environment on openSUSE is usually known as KDE.
Its full name is Plasma Workspace from the KDE Project. KDE is a
modern, elegant, yet powerful graphical user interface (GUI).
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43. What makes KDE on openSUSE special? It has a team of
dedicated engineers who spend much of their time fixing bugs so you
can rely on KDE It has a large, active and highly experienced
community team around it who bring multiple points of view and
different interests to the project so that KDE on openSUSE meets
many users' needs Through its innovation it stimulates the openSUSE
distribution to develop, evolve and progress
44. Gnome openSUSE 13.2 comes with the latest and greatest that
the GNOME desktop has to offer GNOME 3.14. At the time of the
release 13.2 offers GNOME 3.14.1, which improves upon the
user-experience of GNOME 3.10, that came with openSUSE 13.1,
several notches, featuring notably a much improved gnome-shell with
pretty-but-subtle animations and multi-touch gestures for the first
time. The core applications have all seen remarkable activity
during the development of 3.14 (and earlier, 3.12), focused on
exciting features but also to make the desktop experience more
unified and consistent.
45. 3.2 Command line interface The shell is a Command-Line
Interface (CLI), much like MS-DOS was (and the Command Prompt in
Windows XP is), but with the full power of Linux multitasking
available. Dependent on how the shell is entered, it may be full
screen, or it may be in a window under a Window Manager. Most
common is the bash (Bourne-again shell), where bash is a Unix shell
written for the GNU Project. Bash is the default shell on most
Linux systems, as well as on Mac OS X and it can be run on most
Unix-like operating systems. In the case of openSUSE, a bash shell
can typically be used by starting the program Konsole ( and type
"konsole") or by startingxterm ( and "xterm"). A Linux shell is
used when interfacing with the lower Linux boot levels.
Applications can be started from a shell, which can also be very
useful a number of reasons, such as for debugging problems.
46. The following picture shows simplified version of
information and command flow when one user interacts with the
computer running Linux
47. 3.2.1.1 Zypper Zypper is a command line package manager for
installing, updating and removing packages as well as for managing
repositories. It is especially useful for accomplishing remote
software management tasks or managing software from shell
scripts.
48. 3.2.1.2 RPMthe Package Manager RPM (RPM Package Manager) is
used for managing software packages. Its main commands are rpm
andrpmbuild. The powerful RPM database can be queried by the users,
system administrators and package builders for detailed information
about the installed software.
