Open SUSE 10.2

[Mells]

What are peoples thoughts on it?

Had a dabble with Open SUSE 10.2 today with a gnome desktop. Setup was simple enough, it's supposed to be the best Suse to date. I prefer gnome atm, might have a play with KDE when v4 comes out.

Suse seems very good. 3D works no problems out of the box (I've got a dreaded ATI card). Only problem was that my wireless wouldnt work properly without tweeking. It was the other way round with ubuntu, had problems with the graphics, but all in all it found everything OK.

I do like the panel, but I just dont think it will be worth dumping ubuntu just yet. Ubuntu has taught me so much so I dont think I could just stop using it as my primary operating system. Plus, I have customised ubuntu to just how I like it.

It does prove that you can get a decent operating system for free! I was in Dixons yesterday and this old dear was at the counter spending £179.99 on a copy of Vista home. I nearly told her no to bother before she got mugged at the checkout! I cant believe that for nothing (maybe a pain in the arse sometimes) you can get such a good looking functional system.

I'll still be sticking to Ubuntu methinks!

 

[ViolentJ]

Did you install it or run from the Live DVD?

It's worth trying KDE, the SUSE menu is pretty cool.

I switched from Ubuntu recently after just over a year if usage. YAST software manager isn't as good as synaptic in that you manually have to add the repos to begin with and it's a tad on the slow side but once you're setup you rarely use it anyway.

openSUSE out of the box looks a lot more professional than Ubuntu, Ubuntu's usplash looks like a kid made it compared to SUSE's.

If you fancy a change then it's worth installing but if you're happy with Ubuntu then I'd stick with it.

 

[Daz]

Horrible.. never ever liked it.

Same with RedHat, Same with Fedora, um.. infact, anything which uses RPM as it's main package management system.

But, in seriousness, if it's not Debian, it's not even worth thinking about :rasp:

 

[Mells]

Did you install it or run from the Live DVD?

It's worth trying KDE, the SUSE menu is pretty cool.

I switched from Ubuntu recently after just over a year if usage. YAST software manager isn't as good as synaptic in that you manually have to add the repos to begin with and it's a tad on the slow side but once you're setup you rarely use it anyway.

openSUSE out of the box looks a lot more professional than Ubuntu, Ubuntu's usplash looks like a kid made it compared to SUSE's.

If you fancy a change then it's worth installing but if you're happy with Ubuntu then I'd stick with it.

I installed it from the DVD. It didnt work as a live DVD. Got it for free so thought it would be worth ago as acouple of people have said it was worth it.

 

[ViolentJ]

Live DVD and Install DVD are actually separate that's why it won't have worked

 

[KDF]

Horrible.. never ever liked it.

Same with RedHat, Same with Fedora, um.. infact, anything which uses RPM as it's main package management system.

But, in seriousness, if it's not Debian, it's not even worth thinking about :rasp:

lol.. you dont HAVE to use RPM... build for source you wuss.

 

[Daz]

Horrible.. never ever liked it.

Same with RedHat, Same with Fedora, um.. infact, anything which uses RPM as it's main package management system.

But, in seriousness, if it's not Debian, it's not even worth thinking about :rasp:

lol.. you dont HAVE to use RPM... build for source you wuss.

True, but it's still there.. and still annoying

apt-get source package

Make deb, install. Bang. Sorted.

 

[Mells]

lol.. you dont HAVE to use RPM... build for source you wuss.

True, but it's still there.. and still annoying

apt-get source package

Make deb, install. Bang. Sorted.

"sudo apt-get install" is easy compared to downloading stuff, making it etc imo.

 

[KDF]

apt-get
yum
synaptic (basically just a front end for yum/apt-get)
etc. are great, dont get me wrong, the can be a livesaver in a dependancy nightmare.. but most of the time rpm packages dont have the ideal configuration values, sometimes they are not optimized for your processor, so if you can (enough knowledge, enough time) then you should always build from source and set your own configuration.

 

[sn00p]

distro's are for wusses

I have fedora on one of my servers here, it's primarily a server for our customer database app, but I also use it for building tiny linux images for embedded hardware.

I only ever see the command line as I ssh into it.