Comments on: Quick look: openSUSE

By: SteveB

SteveB — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:20:47 +0000

I am just about to try it as server option on an IBM Xseries so any comments regarding this would be awesome as I have only ever used Fedora on such systems in the past.

Also note: I am looking at this as a production server?

By: Grósz Dániel

Grósz Dániel — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:48:54 +0000

ridgeland: SLAB can be replaced with the traditional menu in GNOME on openSUSE.

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Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:52:16 +0000

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By: ridgeland

ridgeland — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:27:49 +0000

I have SuSE and use it only for Skype. One reason I don’t use it more is that awful menu system of Slab and Yast. Try to set up a user to auto-logon after 10 second of no new user login! Even edits to simple text configuration files go through layers of Yast.
Maybe it’s good for a first day ex-Windows user, but the effort to have a non-standard Gnome interface is a disservice. Linux needs standards that stick to the Unix rule of keeping it simple not more fragmentation of unique efforts to look like Windows.

By: fengshaun

fengshaun — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:42:49 +0000

@ Benjamin:
WOW, that was a great video. Yea, it’s definitely much faster, thanks for pointing that. I might just try to enable some buildservice repos, see what I can get!!

@ Mark:
Well, I haven’t used smart, but I will definitely use it in near future. I’ve heard a lot about it! But as Benjamin pointed out, zypper will be much faster in 11.0!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:34:44 +0000

I agree, package management is not nearly as good as practically any other distro. However, if you install smart, that speeds things up considerably. Also, when you use zypper for a while and do updates, you system gradually becomes broken. Not good, but once again, smart fixes this. I hear that zypper will be much better in 11.0 which is due out sooner than later.

By: Benjamin Weber

Benjamin Weber — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:49:49 +0000

zypper will be significantly faster in 11.0, see http://youtube.com/watch?v=XB3o4Skka5Q

In my experience 10.3 zypper is fairly equivalent in speed to yum. zypper does default to automatically refreshing metadata for repositories, so it could be doing large metadata downloads during the install. You can disable this behaviour and refresh the repositories manually if you prefer.

There are newer kernels available for 10.3 in buildservice repositories, it’s not a good idea to use them though as they’re unsupported.

If you want the bleeding edge you can always run Factory, which is the equivalent of Rawhide in fedora.

Feel free to drop into #suse on freenode if you have other questions.

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Quick look: openSUSE | Quick Work — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:05:21 +0000

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