Perhaps my response to your foul mouth earlier in the thread, although helpful, was less than polite (simply responding in kind to your earlier posts; obviously a bad idea). Not many people in the world besides my wife are amused by my admittedly smart mouth. It hardly warrants such behavior in an otherwise friendly technical forum, especially one that most regard as safe to allow children to read.

Despite obvious technical expertise, this young man's frequent juvenile behavior and disregard for sound advice (corroborated by multiple users) by repeating questions elsewhere forces me, for the first time ever, block a user on a technical forum.

J

@Cyryl_the_wolf: now hear this CFB! By being rude towards your fellow LQ members and personally attacking people you have violated the LQ Rules you agreed to adhere to when you signed up. This is unwanted behaviour and will not be tolerated. I ask you to please confirm you will alter your future behaviour in the LQ fora so it is in line with general netiquette and in compliance with the LQ Rules you agreed to adhere to when you signed up.

@all: posts driven by frustration or otherwise inflammatory posts are the best way to start a flamewar. They do not benefit you, your fellow LQ members nor LQ as a whole. Deal with it before you post! Try to stay on the factual side of things. Equally, misguided, frustrated or otherwise inflammatory posts should not be dealt with in a way that clearly fuels the fire. Please remain respectful at all times, show restraint, be factual and please forego posting if you feel a uncontrollable urge to fuel the fire. Like I said before: deal with it before you post.


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Have fun.

I would have to agree with the speed increase and most os aspects have greatly improved over 10.1.

Otherwise I have may buggy problems with many of the bundled applications that I use for which I did not in 10.1.

I wouldn't have bothered upgrading if I would have know that it was so buggy on the application side even though I haven't had to reboot it since I installed it 25 days ago.

The os part on my laptop did however seem to fair a bit better than 10.1
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10.2 gets two thumbs up in my book.

No more problems with software updates or YaST in general (although these issues with rug/zmd etc were reportedly resolved in 10.1 RM) which was the biggest headache for me with 10.1.

I also agree with those who said that it runs quicker than previous releases.

- Perps.

I have tried 10.2 several times, and while the upgrade problems were resolved, I find that the fonts are the worst I've ever seen. They even got worse after installing the MS fonts. After trying different fonts to no avail, I gave up and went back to 10.0. The fonts are clear and readable both in the Firefox browser and when opening documents in OpenOffice. Will try 10.3 to see if they resolved the fonts issue.

Alright... Look... I don't frequently lose my temper. But I am also not one to stand being mocked when all I'm doing is venting a bit of frustration at a problem I am having. I had spent that entire WEEK installing/reinstalling/etc... OVER and OVER again and getting NO results. It was time wasted. Then to have that punk talk down to me...was more than I could bare. For the edited material...I apologize to ALL...but who it was directed at. My tongue is razor sharp when provoked. I forgot for a moment that others had to withstand viewing it as well.

Between the frustration of my ongoing issues with this new distro and the false accusation that I had been foul-mouthed in my original post, THEN being talked down to as I was...

I don't care WHAT you know. There is NO reason to EVER talk down to someone who is making an HONEST and EARNEST effort to arrive at a working solution.

So I put him in his place. I went out of my way to MAKE HIM LOOK STUPID. Even he had nothing he could say afterwards. I achieved my goal...but at a small price. But at least he seemed to have realized how RIDICULOUS his labelings were. For that, I could almost have back an ounce of respect for him. EXCEPT he still had to attempt to play guilt on me in the end. Oh well. Can't win'em all. *shrugs*

If he was refering to my posting the same issue in my own thread... That is the ONLY time I have ever repeated myself in such a manner. I simply thought after having summarized it...that it might be more effective as it's own thread. I don't know what he's getting at there. But whatever. Block me. Can't say that I care.

At any rate...

You ask for confirmation...and so you have it; with my apology.

I had quite a stuggle with distros after getting a new laptop that was pci express and had numerous irq problems as a result. I was using suse 10.1 prior to changing machines and had tried 5 different distrobutions with no native support. Opensuse 10.2 installed on this new machine flawlessly with full pci-e/acpi support. The wireless broadcom installation was also uneventfull.

I'm thrilled right now with it's hardware support.

i am useing suse 10.2 x64 on my athlon machine and the only problem i had was the updater which is an easy fix just add the site manualy and your done

This is the NUMBER ONE reason (among many) that I am such a staunch supporter of Suse for linux newbs, as well as users who simply want to use linux without spending much time "under the hood".

I have never seen such great h/w detection ("support" is technically incorrect, as it is based on the kernel, not the distro) from ANY other distro; not even the mighty *buntu's, or BSD's...

Anyone who can't endorse a distro that will detect a *#%@ broadcom wireless chip and configure ndiswrapper automatically and transparently is just being overly brand-loyal to their own distro. I'm not trying to start a flame-war over distro-madness (everyone has a favorite). I'm very loyal to Mopars and love my Dodge pickups, but that doesn't mean that I would rather push a Dodge than drive a Ford or Chevy. It's too hot in Texas to be that brand loyal!

I guess my point is that there is a very strong case for faster/lighter-weight/more flexible distros like Slack and Gentoo (which I love), but I would rather drive a Suse than push a Gentoo, if you know what I mean. I think that is what Jason (not me, the other one) was trying to say.

Besides, the speed increase in 10.2 is nothing to sneeze at

J