bigchris, Novell just shipped my 10.2 so hope next week I can install it. Please open another thread with your experience with mythtv using the rpm. I have been running myth since 9.1 but from tarball intialy and from the svn recently. If they work the rpm should be faster :-)

-=terry(Denver)=-

yep........................

upgrade ? I was very tempted, I like upgrades.

But that thread settled it for me :

basically, my wifi adapter, with a perfectly working opensource driver is still no longer supported since 10.1. Fixing it in 10.1 was easy. Seems more difficult in 10.2. I'll pass. I guess I'll wait till kde 4 is out now.

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB...er=asc&start=0

Sorry to throw out an off topic thing here but as it turns out I was using a Machspeed MK8-939A Mobo which I now believe was what toasted my CPU while trying to configure Compiz. The mobo is messed up. It's supposed to have a LT warrenty and per its documentation Machspeed "Supports...Fedora, and UNIX series". Well, they don't. I even tried installing Fedora Core (which boots to a blank screen even with a new CPU and garapics card)and then called their tech support. As it turn out they don't support Linux but "tried the mobo on a couple test systems and it worked OK". I asked them to just RMA me a new mobo and they said that unless I can replicate the problem with Windoz they won't. Their support claims and LT warrenty are a screw job. Now the mobo only works with Windoz which takes itself about 5 minutes to load. I might try to get a new mobo because of that but I now have a nice Abit AN8 32X to play with so why bother getting a replacement for something I would probably break again.

Anyone know where I can post a warning to any other Linux people that Machspeed false advertizes and simply doesn't honor its written support claim?


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yeah id agree with that i initially upgraded from 10.1 to 10.2 and although at first everything was fine after a while yast stopped working properly and i had to do a fresh install, everythings fine now

Hm, I cannot confirm that. I've upgraded - with some oddities (see other thread) initially - but right now things are running much smoother than in 10.1.

One exception: something is causing the Xorg process to leak. I first suspected superkaramba, but that wasn't the reason. I didn't have this issue in 10.1. Then again, this does not have to be opensuse specific, since Xorg does have a reputation for memory leaks.

yeah i suppose its a bit of a conundrum. As linux can be sich a bitch to get things to work, once they do work you don't want to have to start again. If it was m$ windows you wouldn't think twice about a fresh install for a new OS but with linux you risk losing stuff that took you weeks to work out. I found though most stuff i remebered whatc i did so it didn't take me long to get back to the same point i was at with 10.1

I'm using 10.1 Remastered off DVD and it works great. I'm going wait until the shelf life is up and upgrade to 10.3 (?) then. Best Linux OS I've used. Very pleased.

I thought I read somewhere that the more stable release numbers were the even ones, ie: x.2, x.4, x.6 etc.
It that true or just a geek-wifes tale? In this is the case we should just upgrade and use 10.2 then 10.4, etc.

Two weeks after 10.2 here my thoughts.

1. Nice distro seems a little faster than 10.1

2. The packing manager (yast zen) are working better than 10.1. I do not need Smart although I use it because I like it.

3. I have a major problem and is with growisofs that is the facility that k3b call to burn dvd's . It is broken at least in SuSE 10.2 64. I can burn CD but not DVD+. I can format dvd but the system locks trying to copy dvd's or transferring data to the dvd. I have an HP 630i drive to burn cd/dvd. I even bough I new one yesterday just in case it was hardware but it did not work. There is a thread in the net with the same problem. I like 10.2 so much I had spent 7 days trying to fix. If I can not fix it I will go back to 10.1. I place a couple of messages in the Novell groups with no answers. I got some good tips here but again for me this is important to be able to use 10.2.