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The Slab, aka GNOME Main Menu, (http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Slab) and its associated Application Browser and Control Centre have some good points and some bad points. This article describes tips for customisation, the aspects I dislike and what I have done about them. It is largely written with a view to a scenario where the users of a SLED 11 machine do not have root.

Domnic shows you how to enable Designer in PHPMyAdmin and save the DB design in PDF format.

Since the release of eDirectory 8.8.0 support for multiple instances of eDirectory on a single box has been available. Using the ndsconfig and especially the newer ndsmanage tool configuring multiple instances of eDirectory is also very easy to do. One feature that has been missing since that time has been the ability to start/stop multiple instances as easily as one can start/stop the first root-based eDirectory instance of a root-installed eDirectory during startup/shutdown. The time has come to overcome that.

After upgrading to OES Linux from NetWare, Mike Brady found one of the many advantages of running the OES stack on Linux. They now host a private intranet for employees, relieving Mike of a lot of work. Come find out how he did it.

Webcast: Thursday, September 10, 2009 - Migrating your mission-critical workloads from one software platform to another is not a trivial process. To ensure a smooth migration, you need careful planning to avoid any significant downtime and service interruption for your enterprise. Experts from Novell and Ziff Davis will discuss best practices for migrating from Solaris to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

For a while now I have taken for granted the marvelous functionality commonly referred-to as "workspaces" in the X window system. Anybody using a graphical interface with X already probably has this functionality present by default and in many distributions the feature of multiple workspaces is even enabled by default The idea behind this article is to show how efficiency in the GUI can be improved using this feature and the ease of adopting the technology to suit your needs out of the box, because Linux Just Does That.