So you've got that shiny new openSUSE 11.2 system up and running. Now what? The default repositories have plenty of software, but there's much more for openSUSE in community and semi-official repositories that you might find useful.

The openSUSE Build Service generates .ymp files from now on, which can be used with Benjamin Weber’s One Click Install YaST Module.

This module takes care that all required repositories get used for installation and installs a predefined set of packages. You need no root permissions just to browse the content of a .ymp file.

The stable repositories of Arch and PCLinuxOS have latest Gimp (2.4.0) just two days after its release. The remaining ones including Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mandriva all have a previous version in their official stable repositories. This indicates how frequently these distributions update their repositories with latest software.

Something that is asked about quite a bit in the PCLinuxOS support IRC channel is “how to change repositories”. One of the main reasons this is needed is that not all repositories are reachable depending on your geographic location.

Many linux distributions divide their repositories into different parts based on certain criteria. It could be for support, policy, or anything else. I have tried to understand what kinds of repositories are out there for some distributions, and have always had a hard time remembering what is what.

Let’s say you want to write an easy-to-install program for any Linux distribution. That’s a a problem. There is no single, easy way to install software for all versions of Linux. OpenSUSE thinks it has an answer: the openSUSE Build Service.

Google’s Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories

Google’s Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories.

First you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list file

Google's Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories.