Category : Linux

26 Jan

Cisco VPN on Linux OpenSuse 10.3

by Marco Mastropaolo

I found this guide quite useful : http://linux.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/cisco-vpn-client-opensuse-103/ Don’t worry about the fact that the link is for a x86-64 version. It works on 32bit systems too. However, after the installation completed, I could not connect because of an error saying “The profile specified could not be read.” (if you get a “couldn’t connect” message [...]

Filed Under: Linux, Security

14 Jan

Top 5 reasons to temporarily abandon Linux on the desktop

by Marco Mastropaolo

Running Linux on the desktop requires some more free-time than Windows, at least if you come from a Windows world. Here’s my top 5 reasons I will pause usage of Linux for some time: Less free time due to work overload. Need of having Visual Studio 2005 handy 99% of the time. VPN access (and [...]

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03 Jan

OpenSUSE 10.3

by Marco Mastropaolo

Finally, yesterday I chose to remove Ubuntu and put OpenSUSE 10.3. I procrastinated the decision of putting OpenSUSE on because many posts around the web saying about huge installation times (talking figures of 5-6 hours) and so I decided for the Ubuntu live CD for that specific reason in the holidays – I wanted to [...]

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31 Dec

The “I don’t know my system” dementia

by Marco Mastropaolo

Don’t try this at home. Well, if you must try it, do it at home and not at work I’ve just installed Ubuntu 7.10 to do some development. In mono of course. I’m happy mainly because my greatest obstacle on Linux programming was “learning yet another GUI library”. Ok since I decided to use GTK# [...]

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