Enterprise Benefit: openSUSE Brings KDE Update for 11.2
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more »Major Fedora Relocation
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more »OpenSUSE Says Farewell to SaX2
Dec 03, 2009When the graphical interface setup under openSUSE didn't work just right, one could always run SaX2 to correct it. Now Novell wants to retire the tool.
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