Open SuSE 11.0
 

Hi Guys,

any comments on Open SuSE 11.0? I just installed yesterday and I don't see much of a difference.

Hello,

At least, you can installed it.
I can not do it, I have this message, Can not find repository.

I will try to find other image to burn.

Best regards

It seems they have finally improved the speed of the package manager, you know... the long time for updating cache, repository metadata and so on... a great improvement, since installing packages via Yast was really annoying!

when I downloaded the x64 version for my laptop it installed fine BUT when I downloaded the x32 version for my desktop it gave me an error message and messed up my grub. I wasn't able to use 10.3 (which I had previously installed) so I downloaded the x32 image again and re-tried it and worked fine.
I think the file got damaged sometime during the download process.
Download it again and give it a try. Let me know the outcome.
Good Luck

Download should be right here: http://software.opensuse.org/

At least that's where I'm downloading it from..

For some reason my original download quit at 2GB.. attempting a second download hoping it was just some bizarre fluke.

I think there was so many people downloading it at the same time that some people were getting cut off during the dl process.

I have 1 question... I updated from SuSE 10.3 to 11 but when I clicked on my KDE menu the version that I have is 3.5. is there any way to enable 4.0? I remember KDE 4.0 was checked while updating it.
Please let me know.
Thanks.

I hate the way it seems to insist on installing grub in the MBR. Even a manual re-install shows that the grub-install script has been modified to force this behaviour. I haven't invrstigated in detail yet, as I've gotten around it by re-installing grub by booting another distro.

Also had a few issues with NVidia drivers, and had some weird things going on with LDAP logins, but most of these bits are getting resolved.

The NVidia issue was/is that I can't save the xorg.conf. I run nvidia-settings as root from a terminal (this is what I do on other distros), but it won't write. Ended up simply copying xorg.conf from my 10.3 install.

Really liked the network install options - you can install from samba shares in addition to NFS, etc. Simple GUI selector for that made life easier.

All around, pretty good. I'm planning on a gnome install to see what that looks like as well.

Can't help on the KDE 4 issue, but it looks good on my system - I'm using it on Fedora 9 as well.

I found out why I couldn't load KD4. First of all before Logging In I have to click on 'Session Type' then select KD4 BUT I had ver 10.3 x32 installed then I updated to 11.0 x64 (i have a Intel Core2 Duo) so when I try running KD4 it just gives me an error message.
I would have to updated again with a x32 ver. KD4 works fine on my x32 Pentium 4 machine.

I install the kde 4.04 version first and then Gnome both work fine .
It is easy to install Gnome from kde installation

all the best

I never used Gnome. Is it as good and powerful as KDE?

As a note:
If you are upgrading from 10.3 to 11.0 don't forget to erase 10.3's repositories. I had an issue last night trying to install kaffeine's codecs to play videos. After erasing all the repositories i was able to install them. Of course then I had to add the software updates repositories.

This is a link to the video and audio codecs:

http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia

metacity is not as configurable as kwin. I mainly use gnome because I mostly use gtk application... for some reason they seem more intuitively organized for me. Loading the first gtk application under kde takes ages and vice versa. I also run compiz most of the time - primarily for the desktop zoom plugin, and compiz never worked wo well with KDE for me. Doesn't make much of a difference otherwise for me though.

I just installed it yesterday. I installed it mainly because I wanted to see KDE 4.0, and I quite like it. didn't have much trouble...
The old suse issues.
The mencoder/mplayer version they provide didn't work for me - I just needed to extract an mp3 from flv to transcribe it, and it created what souds like xruns...
One really annoying problem with my usb drive - see here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...files.-651133/

Finally they fixed YAST as a package manager! It was long overdue, but better late than never.

I still think SUSE is the sexiest distribution out there. If I can get HAL to automount my usb drives, and I don't run into too much trouble with the rpm packages it provides, I might stick with it for a while.

Ceantuco like to try gnome use yast> select pattern Gnome and it install Gnome
At the login screen you choice betweeb KDE and Gnome


all the best

Kde4!
 

i've installed opensuse 11.0 yesterday.
it's good i think. but KDE :confused:(specially KDE4) is really boring!
i love gnome!:)