Falkon Web Browser on openSUSE

A web browser is a tool that is pretty much indispensable for day to day work and annoyingly, over the last few years they have become more and more memory hungry. My browser habits are as such that I am mostly using the web browser for research, gathering information and expanding my knowledge so very … Continue reading Falkon Web Browser on openSUSE

TeamViewer 13 on openSUSE

I first started using TeamViewer version 12, last year and it has been a fantastic tool. I reviewed it very positively as it was a great tool for me to access my systems remotely. An often spoken criticism of TeamViewer was that it was a Wine application not a true native Linux application. Unless if … Continue reading TeamViewer 13 on openSUSE

Upgrade Reliability of openSUSE Tumbleweed

For fun... or maybe negligence... I hadn't updated one of my openSUSE Tumbleweed netbooks. As a rolling distribution of Linux, it is generally considered in bad form to not keep it updated as it will likely break the installation. Not so with Tumbleweed. The System Acer Aspire One D255E Netbook Intel Atom CPU N455 @ … Continue reading Upgrade Reliability of openSUSE Tumbleweed

FreeCAD First Timer

I have had a need for doing 3D CAD work in Linux but I don't have the budget to invest in any  high dollar software to hobby around. FreeCAD fit the bill. It's a free and open source 3D CAD modeler but it does a bunch of other things too. Although I could probably run … Continue reading FreeCAD First Timer

Adobe Acrobat Pro Alternative with XFA Extension on openSUSE | Master PDF Editor

For better or worse the PDF format seems to have become the de facto standard in digital documents. Generally, when I just want to view or quickly bang-out a form on a PDF, the KDE Plasma default Okular works just fine. The problem I have run into is with US government forms that have a … Continue reading Adobe Acrobat Pro Alternative with XFA Extension on openSUSE | Master PDF Editor