Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Opensuse”
Review: openSuse 11.2
I took a look at openSuse 11.1 nearly a year ago and so it’s time to see what’s changed with openSuse 11.2. For those new to my blog, when I review a new version of a distro I’ve reviewed before, I usually just do a comparison to the previous review. Also important to know is that I review distros the point of view of ease of installation and ease of use. While I’ve often been told that I should use a distro for X amount of time before reviewing it, pretty much all Linux distros are the same in day-to-day usage. The only real difference being whether updates break stuff or not. But, since all versions of Linux basically all have the same software, I don’t really see what I would gain from using a distro over a number of days. Also, there are tons of other reviewers that do that. Finally, I only tend to get those comments whenever I’ve said bad stuff about a distro. Whenever I say all good stuff I never get people saying that I should spend more time with the distro or that I shouldn’t use a virtual machine. So, I think there’s something to be said about that. At any rate…let’s get into openSuse 11.2.
Review: openSuse 11.1
After reading through LXF, I tried loading openSuse 11.1 with the failsafe settings and it worked in VirtualBox. So I’ll now be reviewing openSuse 11.1. Here’s the screen as it booted up.
and after it loads up, it gives a nice explanatory screen.
So I last looked at openSuse 11.0 in Aug 2008. I’m not sure exactly how much has changed from 11.o to 11.1. I re-read my old review to get some perspective on what I said last time. Once I’ve gone through a distro at least once, I don’t see a point in repeating myself. Rather I look at how the distro has evolved since last time. Follow that link a few sentences back to see what I originally said about openSuse. As with Linux Mint 6, this time I’ll be evaluating the distro installation process - since I didn’t get to do that before as well as the program installation process. openSuse was listed in my Fedora 10 review as the distro with which to see how awesome KDE 4.2 is - so I’ll be testing that as well.
Review: openSuse 11.0 (and KDE 4)
I’ve never used Suse or openSuse. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been a “loyal” Fedora user since Fedora Core 1 and I have Ubuntu on my laptop since it had awesome laptop support. I even got some Suse CDs as a prize for the Letter of the Month from Linux Format magazine. However, I never even tried it at that time as I was mad at Novell for the Microsoft pact. I think it lends a lot of credibility to Microsoft’s BS argument that Linux violates its patents.
Eric the distro reviewer?
I’ve been reading so much about all these Linux distros and I’ve been curious what they’re all about. In particular, Mandriva’s been calling to me a lot because I think that, had Ubuntu not been around, I probably would have installed it on my laptop. I’ve certainly had a bit of interest in the distro. There’s also all these other strange distros like GOS and Foresight Linux that I everyone’s talking about. I find myself wondering what’s so different or great about these? As you’ve noticed recently, the pendulum on my blog has swung away from Blender and back towards Linux while mostly skipping over politics (there really isn’t much to be said there that hasn’t been said over and over on cable news). So you may notice some more reviews on here.