Comments on: What’s unique about openSUSE?

By: Capodastro

Capodastro — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:26:15 +0000

It could be worse.

By: Zonker

Zonker — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:17:07 +0000

Please do file a bug. Discussion on factory is useful and helpful, but again — not the same as filing a bug. It’s too easy for the relevant developers to miss the problem, and it’s outside their work stream. It may not always be convenient, but it’s the most reliable way for something to actually be fixed.

By: manchette

manchette — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:43:49 +0000

3rd of december 2008
Hello
i’m sorry i did not see your answer here before today,
no i did not fill a bug, but i wrote the same on factory list without answer nor comment (too bad)
I’m gonna open a bug for this

By: Peter ZAMMIT

Peter ZAMMIT — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:58:08 +0000

When I started using computers in 2000 the first linux distribuition that worked was SuSE 7 and after that every other release of SuSE 8,9, SUSELED 10 and open SUSE 9,10,11.MANDRAKE has been an on off affair. MANDRIVA,FORESIGHT,SABAYON,FEDORA,MINT and PCLOS have become usable to me in the last 3 years, only this year UBUNTU 8.04 has installed properly. Since 2000 then I have used SUSE as my REAL Distribution, Yast is so easy for me that I do not understand the negative comments about it, I very rarely use command line and am not a wiz.KDE4.1.3 ROCKS, hurra!THANKS everyone at SUSE and NOVELL, keep the GOOD WORK

By: j.engelh

j.engelh — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:25:35 +0000

Pros:
- being the one with the least bugs IMHO
- zypper
- sax (i gave up searching equivalents in other distros)
- good biarch support (in Debian/amd64 for comparison, many a 32-bit baselib for x86_64 is missing)

By: Zonker

Zonker — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:00:54 +0000

Thanks for the info – have you filed a bug on this?

By: Zonker

Zonker — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:59:54 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions. Not really relevant to the post, but thanks.

By: Zonker

Zonker — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:58:02 +0000

Thanks for the tip, I generically refer to them both as “slab” since the design is similar.

By: MartinMohring

MartinMohring — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:48:27 +0000

and last, but not least, cross target support in OBS soon.

By: Chika

Chika — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:54:08 +0000

Like a couple of folk here, I switched to SUSE from Red Hat mostly because there were bugs that didn’t seem to get addressed. That was a long time ago now, and the system I use, the job that I do and so on have changed somewhat, but I keep using openSUSE because it works well. Indeed, version 11.0 is a lot more stable than some of the distros I started with!

The one disappointment for me was that I wasn’t impressed with KDE 4 which was sluggish and buggy. It was bad enough on my main server system but when I loaded it on a slower machine, one which happily ran KDE 3 and all the standard GUI shells on the Live CD, it had a really hard time keeping up. Some jobs would suffer badly, and the desktop would periodically hang completely. I did give Gnome a go but I eventually gravitated back to KDE 3 which I still find to be pretty good (I suppose that’s high praise from an old RISC OS user!)

I really hope, therefore, that the new release of KDE 4 is an improvement. I won’t mind giving up my existing GUI setup if it is (well, KDE 3, anyway. It’ll be a snowy day in hades before I let RISC OS go!)