Software suggestions

Greetings.

I’ve gotten so frustrated in the past with every OpenSuse distribution since v9, mainly with hardware and other problems. I have to say that I tried v12.1 and so happily relieved. Even my Toshiba notebook wireless works! I had spent countless hours in v11 trying to get it to work. Mp3’s play without hours of troubleshooting and research. Unbelievable, Thank you!!! :good:

I love it!!!
I’m not quite ready to leave window$ entirely so I dual boot with Wn 7 on an Intel dual core 64bit notebook.

I have a couple questions if you don’t mind.

  1. Is there an easy to learn, easy to follow step by step learning solution for BASH? I have a very good Debian video-based tutorial but it seems a lot of it is different than Suse terminal commands.

  2. There used to be a thread which lists popular window$ programs and their OpenSuse counterparts. Other such lists can be found on the web, but this particular thread had downloadable RPM packages prepared and uploaded by other users. I’ve done some searching this forum but I have yet to find it.

  3. Is there a virtual disk program that can load and run an .iso disk image?

  4. Is there a program that can run DIVX videos?

Thanks in advance.

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On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:16:02 +0000, SteveFury61 wrote:

> 1. Is there an easy to learn, easy to follow step by step learning
> solution for BASH? I have a very good Debian video-based tutorial but it
> seems a lot of it is different than Suse terminal commands.

bash is bash is bash is bash. :slight_smile:

When it comes to internal commands, bash is going to be the same across
different Linux distributions.

Where you may run into differences is in external commands to the shell.
While it’s an advanced tutorial, you might look at

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Bash itself is a shell and scripting language, so it’s not something that
is learned ‘step by step’ in most cases.

> 2. There used to be a thread which lists popular window$ programs and
> their OpenSuse counterparts. Other such lists can be found on the web,
> but this particular thread had downloadable RPM packages prepared and
> uploaded by other users. I’ve done some searching this forum but I have
> yet to find it.
>
> 3. Is there a virtual disk program that can load and run an .iso disk
> image?

ISO files can just be mounted like any other filesystem. In userland,
there’s a tool called ‘fuseiso’ that is good and doesn’t require any
special permissions to run.

> 4. Is there a program that can run DIVX videos?

Check out the multimedia howto in the multimedia section. That should
get you started.

Jim

Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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Let me point you to some bash scripts I have posted that might be helpful to you:
1) asroot version 1.14 allows you to run a program (with options) as a root user - Blogs - openSUSE Forums2) Bash Scripting - How would you like to Learn? - Blogs - openSUSE Forums ](http://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/berkeley-packet-filter-just-time-compiler-linux-kernel-3-0-45/)3) C.F.U. - CPU Frequency Utilitiy - Version 1.10 - For use with the cpufrequtils package - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 4) FastBoot for Grub Legacy Menu using Kexec - Version 1.28 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 5) F.S.M. - Folder Selection Menu - Version 1.20 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 6) H.I. Hardware Information - A Bash script to install and run inxi with default options! - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 7) LNVHW - Load NVIDIA (driver the) Hard Way from runlevel 3 - Version 1.10 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 8) MMCHECK - Version 2.35 - Check Your Multimedia in 16 Steps - Bash Script File - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 9) N.S.F. - New Script File, Bash Script File Header Creator - Version 2.6 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 10) P.B.S. - Partition Boot Selector - Version 2.00 for Grub Legacy - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 11) S.A.K.C. - SUSE Automated Kernel Compiler - Version 2.50 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 12) S.A.S.I. - SuSE Automated Script Installer- Version 1.00 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 13) SGTB - SuSE Git Kernel Tarball Creator - Version 1.31 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 14) S.K.I.M. - SuSE Kernel Installed Modules - A lsmod replacement- Creates Alphabetized Module Listing - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 15) S.L.A.V.E. - SuSE Logfile Automated Viewer Engine - Version 2.50 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 16) S.L.R.C. - SuSE Local Repository Creator - This Example is setup for Packman - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 17) S.T.A.R.T. - SuSE Terminal Audio Reporting Tool - Version 1.11 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 18) S.U.F.F. - SuSE USB Floppy Formatter - Version 1.03 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums 19) SYSEdit - System File Editor - Version 1.00 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,