http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_11.0

10.3 was "nearly there" for me, so I am really looking forward to 11.0.

Step #1: begin the download!

essential links

• Getting NVIDIA and ATI drivers on openSUSE 11.0
• opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/11.0
• Things to do after installing openSUSE 11.0

Let us know how it works out Sni!

Yes of course! But being capped at 10/15 kB/s means it takes a while to even download the ISO... and I already dread using auto-update the first time.

Why so slow??

capped by ISP small print

I got the iso though. Now I'll just reboot to SUSE 10.3 to burn it (which I incidentally installed when W2K began to flat out refuse to see any of my CD drives).

What can I say... the reason I'm not posting about it is because it WORKS WONDERFULLY. Seriously, this is the first SUSE where the package management just makes me happy, and overall it seems to have gotten faster again. KDE 4 is said to be still lacking a lot, mostly configurabilty (the features are there, just no frontend etc.), but I'm quite happy so far - it was a bit buggy out of the box, but after adding repositories, updating everything and then restarting it's great for me, and I guess it will just get better from there.

Are you on stationary or portable? Hows the WLAN support?

Getting a little fed up with quirkies on Mandriva but would like to be sure SUSE can handle my HW...

Didn't install it on the laptop yet, so I don't know (just got it back from a friend just before I went on holidays). It (laptop/WLAN) "seems to have worked" with OpenSUSE 10.3, but I never actually, you know, tried it out (my internet at home is cable based, there were no open networks in my 'hood, and I didn't bother to take it to a hot spot).


Well, you can install SUSE additionally - you'll know if it recognizes Mandriva (you know, re: boot menu, and of course partitions) before you hit "okay, do it then".

Even better, with 11.0 Live CD and installation CD are one and the same, so you should be able to check that out before installing anything!

I would never change a running system, I'd rather try to get a second one running and only delete the first one when you find that you haven't used it for a while (because the second one works perfectly).

Good luck, and welcome to the dark side
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/03/mi...ell_suse_linux/
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2912974320.html

Its no bother, I've got 3 separate 'puters so I can mess around with this one....

Think I'm gonna d/l the Suse liveCD...

Got it running on my laptop now. OpenSuse 11.0 Gnome edition. Wireless driver installations was a doddle, only had to run a tool that downloaded and did the magic automatically.

Fuck me, this is way better than that Mandriva installation - now even running a x64 OS for the first time. Its like switching from a Renault to a Mercedes. Mind you, I always had more confidence in German engineering.. hehe...

Found Gnome to be a pile of kak, got the KDE4 version on instead. A little bit more tricky to install, had to update the system via ethernet cable before the wireless manager got working. But heey, KDE4 is very sexy... RrrrRRrr...

Also, had to manually edit /etc/fstab to get access to my windows partition - mandriva had a tool for that.

Yes, Gnome is shit. Linus seems to agree: "Please, just tell people to use KDE." & "Gnome seems to be developed by interface nazis" (yes, that is nearly three years old, but stuff hasn't really changed - so, uhm, fuck Ubuntu... there's more to Linux than this, as Björk said)


yast2 System->Partitioning ?
http://en.opensuse.org/Access_Your_Windows_Files

In short: cheers, share & enjoy!


To be fair, I'm pretty sure you'd find a 64bit Mandriva to be very smooth, too. Not that I ever tried Mandriva, so maybe that's bull. In any case 64bit is neato elito! Even 32bit apps (Bibble & Renoise in my case) seem to run smoother in a 64bit environment because there's more resources left over for them.

I'd rather make love in a Renault than a Mercedes though, if you catch my drift

Yeah well, found the KDE4.0 to be a little bit buggy to be honest, so installed the kubuntu today, and it seems more stable (and stripped)..

Expecting a littlebit tweaking during the next week - Now I can make a good comparison between 3 distros!

http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Repositories

Who needs KDE 4.0 when you can have 4.1 ?