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My favorite 11.0 things
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Today is the big day. The world will get to take a look at openSUSE 11.0 in its full glory — and I think it’s going to go over very well. The openSUSE team has really done an amazing job with 11.0.
I’ve had the good fortune to be using the final release for several days, and though there are no major surprises between the betas/RCs and final, I thought I’d mention some of my favorite things in the 11.0 release…
Banshee 1.0 has much love from me. It’s doing a really good job of managing music off of my iPod, and I can’t wait to get back to a decent (non-hotel) connection to play with the Last.fm features.
The package managment improvements, of course, are going a long way towards making me love, love, love this release — When I want to do something and realize I need to install a package to get it done, I don’t like a long wait time between point A and B.
As I’ve mentioned previously, NetworkManager in 11.0 rocks. I didn’t always have the best experience with NetworkManager in 10.3, but it’s been rock solid in 11.0 and super-convenient with my EV-DO card.
My favorite thing about 11.0, though? It’s released! The anticipation has been astounding — we’re getting tons of feedback from the press (which I will post about later tonight) which is really positive. I’m also hearing lots of love from community members and others who have given it a shot.
The openSUSE team has put tons of work into 11.0 and it shows. I hope all of the folks involved are feeling good today (not to mention taking a little time to relax) because it’s well-deserved. I can’t even begin to tell you how much fun the last few months have been!
Enough about me, though — what’s your favorite thing about openSUSE 11.0? What should we be looking at for 11.1?
Just using the KDE 4 Live-CD version here. Really great job on 11.0, congratulations big time. Love for opensuse keeps growing…
Glad you’re enjoying it!
The new knetworkmanager is broken for wireless. It only scans wireless networks once on boot. The bug report is closed but the fix has not been pushed out.
I think it has been pushed. I installed openSUSE 11.0 just yesterday and there were 6 updates for the os, one of them being a fix for knetworkmanager (and network manager for GNOME too)
I love the new NetworkManager in Gnome - much better than before. Still lamenting the lack of a decent opensource ATI driver and wondering where Novell are with progressing with this. This is a very slick release indeed, the standouts for me include:
- Faster boot time
- Faultless suspend/resume (on my T60p anyway!)
- Zypper - awesome improvement over 10.3, this is a major dose of aspirin compared to the last release!
- OpenOffice 2.4 is kick-ass cool!
Lovin’ it!
One thing that sucks is the price difference between the US and Europe…
US $59.95
EU €59.95
If you convert dollars to EUR it should be €38 thereabouts! Rip off? Hmmm!
Look, I really like 11.0, especially package management - that’s improved by leaps and bounds.
But wireless connectivity sucks big time. I’ve spent forty minutes doing the install and updates, and hours trying to get an Intel wifi card to work.
Network Manager? Don’t make me laugh. It still doesn’t work with SCPM and doesn’t handle changing nfs networks! And now you can’t even see what networks are available when you could before, by just right-clicking the icon.
youre right networkmanager sucks big time
i’ve tried downgrading but that doesnt work
but opensuse rocks!