Ben Kevan’s Blog

VMWare 6.0.x and USB in Guest Machine on openSUSE 10.3

So you fire up your openSUSE 10.3 machine and install VMWare 6.0.2 and your really excited because now you have USB 2.0 support. You plug in your Thumb / USB HardDrive and nothing. You don’t see it in your guest machine, but you do on your host. What can be causing this? Easy usbfs is set to noauto.

You can confirm this by running:

grep usb cat /etc/fstab

You can login to your favorite editor and change it to auto and you are good to go.

I will add a quick howto on my Wiki for future references

Small KDE 3 vs KDE 4 GUI Difference for the normal user on openSUSE 10.3

Have you been wondering what the whole big deal between KDE 3 and KDE 4 is? You keep hearing Qt3 and Qt4 and you sit and wonder.. Do you care who is a Qt? You just want to know what it is going to look like and what it is going to do for you.

Here are 2 basics for you:

• It will be faster
• It will look way cooler

We won’t get into technical detail about it, but I will show you a little side by side comparison of KDE 3 vs KDE 4 using the KNetAttach GUI.

Click to see full size. Notice the detail of the KDE 4 buttons, the cleaness of the fonts. It’s pretty and a whole lot prettier then Vista :o)

Fedora Core 8 First Impressions

Downloaded Fedora Core 8 “Werewold” today and decided to install on my Dell Latitude D820. I was and am quite disappointed. First off the installation didn’t detect my wireless card (Intel 3945) and I wasn’t allowed to add additional software repositories. So then I switch my DE from Gnome to KDE (which is my preference) finish the install. Weird.. Knetworkmanager isn’t coming in the tray so I try to start it and it says nm-applet is running, but I don’t see it in the tray. I kill nm-applet and run knetworkmanager, to no avail. I don’t really have a very easilly accessible hardwired connection so it made it hard to want to go further, but I did. So now I am attached get the extra software but can’t find the Nvidia driver. Ah, found out I need the linva repository (ok, well where is my software manager? I have synaptics install but it won’t start says it cannot be found). Ok that’s all I am going to do tonight. I am going to attempt to use it for the whole day tomorrow (need to throw VMWare on it) and i’ll give a better review). But for now? openSUSE it is, I must say FC8 made me appreciate openSUSE 10.3 quite a bit more.