Guys,
I would like to install SuSE 10.0. But I have a few questions:

1. Does it come with GCC & GDB?

2. How difficult is it to install GCC?

3. I read the article on JEMREPORT, about how one can download xmms-mp3 RPM. Is it applicable for SuSE 10.0 as well?

4. Are other multimedia capabilities (like mplayer,divx) also enabled by downloading RPMS from kernel.org?

5. Can I live without KDE and GNOME and have a minimalist window manager like FVWM?

6. On RHEL, I can completely bypass YUM and manually install RPMS (rpm -Uvh a.rpm). Is this true on SuSE also?

That's it for now. thanks in advance

You should have looked at the Suse website because there are answers already to most of your questions.[list=1][*]Yes GCC & GDM are included[*]Its easy to installo GCC, select it at install time or use YAST to install it later[*]Yes you have to add plugins for mp3[*]You can download multimedia apps from packman [*]You can live without KDe and GNOME just like in any Linux distro or *nix OS out there[*]You can install rpms manually, Suse is after all an rpm based distro so the basics of installing rpms are the same as on any other rpm based distro.[/list=1]

If you get the retail of SuSE 10 there are a few differences, as oppsed to the eval and OSS, etc.

1) Yes on all

2) It comes with, so pretty easy, worked right out of the box for me.

3) If you are reffering to "Hacking OpenSuSE" from the Jem Report : It does apply to all but Retail as I understand it, retail comes with full mp3 support out of the box (anyone can correct me if I am wrong, but I have read that.)

4) Directly in that Jem Report, mplayer, along with full avi, divx, dvd, xvid, and quicktime support, and xine, are all there.

5) If you can live without it normally, I don't see why not. But I haven't tried, I like full Desktop Enviroments.

6) The way I understand it, you do not need SuSE's YAST to do it, no. You can set it up to work in straight command line, as for out of the box or setup... I don't know, I didn't really look into, I like YAST, it is like a security blanket for me not to hose my dependencies and installs.

7) Good luck!

When you fail using the command line fall back to YaST which doesn't make the mistakes or omissions users frequently make on the command line.