opensuse is amazing!

Rainmaker said:
I'm posting from OpenSuse 11.2 (live USB) right now, and I must admit I'm blown away. I last tried it around v10.x and.... :o

But now? :D I set up squid, apache and vsftpd via YaST's plugins within a matter of seconds, and my machine is absolutely ripping through stuff you take for granted as being slow on Windows 7 (loading the database tables up on NZBMatrix in Firefox for example). Blink and miss it on OpenSUSE! :D

I just wish I could get SABnzbd+ working. I've compiled and installed all the deps and reqs manually, but despite confirming they're all 'OK!', SAB won't run. I'll have another go tomorrow when I'm not so tired. So far though? I'm tempted to hose C:\ and convert back to the dark side for a while. My PC finally feels fast again, plus I'm getting 6.2MiB/sec thanks to superior networking.
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Hi
Just tried here and had to install python-cheetah and par2 which were
available by searching here;
http://software.opensuse.org/search

Works fine
 
Oxy said:
Can you not simply install kde3.5 in your linux distro of choice?
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Well, as far as I can tell no, you cannot.

Clearly I must be wrong, but all the updates etc for SuSE 11.x seem to be pointing at the "UP" rather than "DOWN" side of GRADES and so since its already on KDE 4.x it wont let you go back to 3.x

I have literraly just finished downloading Ubuntu 10 ( Beta clearly ) and I am going to give that a shot for a bit and failing that, I am going to have a tinkle with Fedora again... Purely for kicks perhaps, but maybe I need to keep my goals braoder rather than limiting myself.

Im sorry but KDE4 does not come under that...
 
OK mate thanks very much, that's cheered me up. I was running off a live USB and admittedly rather tired (it was 2.30am lol) so must have missed something. I'm seriously considering hosing 7 from this box, or at least dual booting. Linux is just... better. :)
 
Oxy said:
I dual boot, windows for games everyelse for linux.
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Good man. :) I started out with Red Hat 10 and Fedora Core 5, then onto PCLinuxOS and CentOS. I seem to remember saying "I'll do this new fangled dual boot thing, and just go back to Windows when I get sick of Linux or find something I can't do in it."

Four years later, XP had gone, Vista had come and gone, and I was still in Linux. :D I have enjoyed playing with Win7 x64 but I missed Linux too much. I now have OpenSuse 11.2 on my hdd and it's here to stay. :p
 
Oxy said:
I dual boot, windows for games everyelse for linux.

@Fatrakoon why don't you like KDE4? or Gnome?
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Ok, I dont dislike Gnome.

Its just that I have used Mandrake since v4... V5 was my first ever box set of Linux... Funnily enough I still have my box sets of SuSE and Mandrake and they are both v5

But I kind of stuck with it and I didnt like change...

It seemed to be, for me, a KDE / RPM affair and I just couldnt move away even though IK went through a few other flavours I kept creeping back for reasons that I really dont know if truth be told... Storm, Corel and Debian itself, plus others like Gentoo and Slackware ( absolutely loved but hated having to get too dirty and failing too often ) but I just kept on going back to KDE.

The move to gnome was purely only down to one fact, and that is, that KDE 4 feel poorly knocked up, I just dont like it, I dont like how it looks, I dont like how it acts, I just dont like it at all. So, I was looking for something to move me off Mandriva and Ubuntu was one of the many forks in the path that I took, and it just did its job. I liked the fact that it was fairly quick, I liked that it knew my hardware without argueing with me, and so I thought I got to give it a fair run and so I installed it and its been a great choice ever since.

Ok, its a lot more to it that that... I went with Sabayon for a good 5 months and I love Sabayon to buggery too, and my Sabayon setup was fully Beryled up and bounced around the screen like a nutter, but doing it in Ubuntu was seamless and above all simple.

Gnome was the option with the ubuntu disk I had and I kind of accepted it and in time I grew to like it... I would rather go for gnome than suffer the irritation of KDE 4.

I dont know... There is a million little reasons why I dont like KDE 4. Maybe none are fair and valid, but I dotn mind that... I just dont like it and I wont have it near me... If that means having to adopt a new distro then so be it, as I have already done, but if KDE 4 is the future of linux... Then Im glad I also use Win7.
 
Oxy said:
Zomg you are right, lets all install Ubuntu! oh wait, it's brown...

That's my completely helpful response.
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Thats actually a trick by the developers! they pick an awful colour as they know people who install a linux Distro as a desktop just love tinkering things so its like an introduction into what you will spend the next few months doing :p Or was that just me when i tried out Ubuntu?

Anyways i have decided i am going to download OpenSuse and try it out as i have been using it at work a bit and i like it. Also it might improve my poor linux skills a bit quicker!
 
_TubbZ_ said:
Thats actually a trick by the developers! they pick an awful colour as they know people who install a linux Distro as a desktop just love tinkering things so its like an introduction into what you will spend the next few months doing :p Or was that just me when i tried out Ubuntu?

Anyways i have decided i am going to download OpenSuse and try it out as i have been using it at work a bit and i like it. Also it might improve my poor linux skills a bit quicker!
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Yeh go for it, I really like it.
 
I use regular Ubuntu on my server and media computer myself, I only suggested Kubuntu as a possible KDE distro that plays nicely out of the box, I'm rather a linux novice myself, so I really don't know.
 
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