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                                      OpenSuse 42.3 on Dell Precision 7720 Xeon
                                    
 
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Here are the details for getting OpenSuse 42.3 working on Dell's laptop Precision 7720 custom build with Xeon processor and AMD WX 7100 GPU...
                                      
                                     
                              
                              
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                                      OpenSuse Information Security Repository
                                    
 
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In preparation for my demonstrations at the upcoming Spokane 2600 meeting, I found that Suse was missing a LOT of standard security/penetration testing tools in the repositories. Fortunately there is a specialized repo that helps somewhat...
                                      
                                     
                              
                              
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                                      OpenSuse LEAP 42.2 Worst Version of Suse Yet! (on Asus ROG)
                                    
 
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From a stability perspective, this has been the worst OpenSuse Release in years! I reached a point I needed to clean up some clutter on my primary laptop (running OpenSuse 13.2), so I backed up, and wiped (while retaining the windows partitions for the few video games I play with my kids), and installed OpenSuse LEAP 42.2. Here is how it went...
                                      
                                     
                              
                              
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                                      Pigin OpenSuse 11 Community Repositories
                                    
 
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Pidgin has been complaining a lot lately when trying to connect, that it is very out of date under OpenSuse 11.3f, even though I have most of the community repos enabled.