Bonum Certa Men Certa

Do-No-Evil Saturday - Part I: OpenSUSE Still Spinning in People's Drives (Stories Digest)

SuSE logo



It has been just over a fortnight since OpenSUSE 11.0 was released. People still write about their experiences with this distribution, so here is just a sample of what people have found.

Reviews and Experiences



We'll present this as a list of stories with selective snippets.

eyereex.eryell.com: The first 24 hours with openSUSE 11

I’ve installed Mozilla Firefox 3, Google Earth, XMMS, K3b, Apache, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Wine, Tremulous, VLC player, Bluefish, and many other applications. Everything works great!! CompizConfig manager is installed by default so you can straight away show off the desktop effects to Vista’s fan around you after the installation.




simplyclear.wordpress.com: OpenSuse 11OpenSuse 11

It’s been two days since i did installed it and I must say that I’m really satisfied .Pratically I didn’t have to configure anything . The install phase went fast, my linux partition was perfectly recognised.


heresylabs.blogspot.com: SUSE 11.0 handmade

That is all! Now you have your SUSE good as new, without less integrated third-party packages and without crippled multimedia. It's time to install win32 codecs from packman and libdvdcss from videolan before first kaffeine launch, install amarok-xine and remove buggy amarok-yauap plugin.


TuxMachines.org blogs: On OpenSuse 11

All in all, I would have to say that OpenSuse 11 is an improvement over 10.3, which is as it should be.

There are a few cosmetics that I personally am not a fan of, but the beauty of Linux is that I can change these without much fuss.

Beyond that, I think it's definitely worth investigating for folks who want to implement a solid Linux distro.


lincgeek.org: OpenSuse 11

So it looks like Pat and I had the same idea this weekend. That is to play around with the new OpenSuse 11.

[....]

The bigger problem, and one that I still have is that my wifi will not work. The lappy I have uses an Atheros wireless chipset, which works OUT OF THE BOX with Ubuntu. If they can do it, why can’t OpenSuse?


labyrinth.org: OpenSUSE 11…a lot of new goodness, a lot of old goodness

Well I know compared to most people I am writing down my opinion of the latest OpenSUSE release a little late but…I wanted to try it out a bit, kick the tires before I put anything on here about it. And I am certainly glad I did.

[...]

So overall I’d like to say that the folks from Nuremburg have really outdone themselves this time. OpenSUSE 11 is a solid new version with lots of really key enhancements and a great sneak peak into some of the cool stuff we can expect in Novell’s code 11 enterprise offerings coming soon!


ZDNet community: Quad Boot - Friday Update - It's Good!

openSuSE: This probably wins the "cantankerous" award. In the end, it can probably do everything the other can do, but it just seems to make a big fuss over everything.


arsedout.net: Opensuse 11, new boss

Opensuse 11 was officially released a couple weeks ago. I’ve install it onto my work laptop. Overall I like the distro. Compiz works well right out of the box, at least with my hardware. I even got the wireless to work, sort of.


jaysonrowe.wordpress.com: openSUSE 11.0 after a couple of weeks

There is so much flexibility and power available to users in openSUSE it’s amazing.

[...]

Now that I’ve learned my way around the Suse way of doing things, I’m on the mailing-lists, Forums and IRC so I can do my little part in helping out other new users, so you’ll see me around (I’m jayson_r on Freenode).


KDE4



KDE4 is the beginning of something wonderful, but its inclusion in OpenSUSE 11.0 has been the subject of some debate. Here are a few remarks about it.

metaverse.wordpress.com: openSUSE 11.0 and KDE 4

The openSUSE development team was faced with a difficult dilemma with this release. The KDE 4.0 desktop environment was released in January, with an entirely new way of doing things. The Plasma desktop, Phonon multimedia framework, and Solid hardware framework represented some spectacular changes from the familiar KDE 3.x interface in place since 2002.


blogs.warwick.ac.uk: openSUSE 11.0 KDE4 inclusion

Summary

* openSUSE is not forcing people to switch to KDE4. Users can switch to KDE4 when they wish. Both are included on openSUSE 11.0. * If you find bugs in or are missing functionality in KDE4 please file bug reports so it can be fixed. * If you have an opinion regarding when the timescale for moving to KDE4 you are free to get involved and influence the decisions. You do not have to resort to insulting developers on the mailing lists to be heard, in fact insulting developers so is a good way to ensure that people disregard your opinion.


srikrishnadas.wordpress.com: Ride KDE4 with openSUSE 11.0

About Six and half hours of leeching from torrent and 117.4 MB of seeding contribution for self-satisfaction, adds another distro to my wallet - the all new openSUSE 11.0 KDE4 Live CD.

[...]

Current distro profiles of my machines - openSUSE 11.0 on PC and Mandriva 2008.1 on lappie.


Technical



More 'gory' (or simply advanced) details appear in the following posts:

opensuse.org: Showing package dependencies

This is a simple Qt Dialog widget which can be used in other programs too. ( Package libqdialogsolver1)


HowToForge: The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 11 (GNOME)

This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 11 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.


blogs.warwick.ac.uk: Upgrading openSUSE 10.3 –< 11.0 in a running system.

Upgrading openSUSE between releases while the system is running is not a currently supported method of upgrading. The supported method is to boot from an install medium and select the upgrade option. Nevertheless, it is possible to upgrade a running system. This is more difficult than normal with openSUSE 10.3 -> openSUSE 11.0 due to the change in RPM payload format from bz2 -> lzma which makes the RPM in 10.3 unable to install RPMs from 11.0.


jaysonrowe.wordpress.com: Configuring your fonts optimally in openSUSE 11.0

Great fonts and great font rendering are especially important to both the enjoyable and comfortable use of any operating system. Linux fonts, and font rendering have definately gotten better through the years, and the font set up in openSUSE 11.0 actually looks surprisingly nice out of the box.


Miscellany



There have been noteworthy developments other than those raves about OpenSUSE 11.0 and feedback on complaints.

In fact, 11.1 is already being discussed and implemented.

With openSUSE 11.0 out the door, it’s time to start thinking about openSUSE 11.1. The public release of openSUSE 11.1 is scheduled for December 18, 2008, six months after the release of openSUSE 11.0.


Here is the roadmap, which was followed by Andreas Jaeger indicating that it's already being worked on.

Alpha0 is not yet released, we’re still hunting some bugs but I hope the above gives some impression where openSUSE 11.1 will go.


Linux Outlaws, the audiocast, chose quite an attractive title when it included a mythical "KDE 5" alongside OpenSUSE 11. It's actually about KDE4.

This week we bring you a special show where we review the latest openSUSE release and also talk a fair bit about KDE 4.


Going further back rather than jumping ahead, Joe Brockmeier had this announcement to make a few days ago:




[opensuse-announce] Novell Client for Linux Public Beta for openSUSE 10.3



We're pleased to announce the public beta of the Novell Client for openSUSE 10.3. Novell released the packages [1] for the Novell Client for Linux 2.0 SP1 public beta today.

A number of openSUSE users have expressed interest in having the client packaged for openSUSE, so our developers have been working on building the client against openSUSE. Please download the package and give it a try on your systems.

Novell is also working on a package for openSUSE 11.0, though we don't have an official timeline for that package yet. We will also post an announcement when it's available, and will post announcements for any further betas or the final release of the Novell Client for Linux.

[1]: http://www.novell.com/beta/auth/beta.jsp?id=2585&type=1




For more information, see the weekly report from the OpenSUSE site.

In this week:

* openSUSE 11.1 Roadmap * Novell Client for Linux Public Beta for openSUSE 10.3 * People of openSUSE: Jan-Simon Möller * John Anderson: Find duplicate files by content not name * Lukas Ocilka: Package Search and One Click Install in YaST * Miguel de Icaza: Moonlight 0.7 is now Available



There's also that feature article, this time concentrating on Jan-Simon Möller.

Weekly News writer and openSUSE member Jan-Simon Möller accepted ‘People of openSUSE’ interview request and shared with us some information about himself. Jan is also the maintainer of the hamradio repository on the Build Service!


Next up: commercial SUSE.

Recent Techrights' Posts

More Microsoft-Red Hat Cross-Pollination as the Company Loses a Managing Director
some people move from Microsoft to Red Hat and some do the opposite
Cloudflare Gives Us All Another Reason to Boycott Cloudflare
If Cloudflare wants to use its vast surveillance network (which is what it does as a CDN) to foist paywalls and maybe something worse (like DRM on top), then Cloudflare should be more widely rejected as a company
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Un-cancelled the Best People, Just in Time for the Big 4-0
Mr. Oliva should have been there all along (since 2019)
Most "Modern" Technology Makes You Slower and Dumber
Because proprietary software makes you worse off
"What Comes After Free Software?" Wrongly Insinuates We've Reached the Goal (Prison is Not the Goal)
The oil tycoons use similar tactics against environmentalists, giving them fake "wins"
Making More Work Space
I learned the hard way that less is more in circumstances where more means distraction
MAHA is a Lie, Public Officials Never Valued Citizens' Health (They Still Value Private Businesses, Their Sponsors)
Reject demagogues
 
Science is Under Attack
Oligarchy prefers a dumbed-down population
Someone Expiring Certificates on the Day of the 9/11 Attacks is Not Someone I Would Want Controlling My PC (or Deciding What's Authorised for Booting)
"social justice warriors"
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has Reportedly Failed People With Wrong Advice
At the moment the SRA has a PR blunder
The Man Suing Brett Wilson LLP and Gervase de Wilde (5RB)
Now he's probably using the (almost) 200,000 pounds he's supposed to receive to sue Brett Wilson LLP and former colleagues/partners
Slopwatch: A World Wide Web That's Rotting for Companies That Won't Even Exist in a Few Years
some of the junk Google News is promoting
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 23, 2025
IRC logs for Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Links 24/09/2025: Qt Creator 18 Beta, Microsoft Cannot Bail Out "ChatGPT" Anymore, China and US Intensify Censorship
Links for the day
Gemini Links 24/09/2025: Gemlogs and Politics
Links for the day
Links 23/09/2025: Japan Limits Uses of Skinnerboxes ('Smartphones') With Toxic "Apps", Fentanylware (TikTok) Tapped by "MAGAts"
Links for the day
Brett Wilson LLP Has Just Been Sued (by Their Own Clients!)
Vladimir and Alla Yanpolsky sued Brett Wilson LLP in BL-2025-001167 at the end of last week
The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part II - UK SLAPPs for Americans, SLAPPs for Profit
Brett Wilson LLP has a track record of this kind
Mayday: Optus emergency calling crisis
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 23/09/2025: Massive Data Breach, Slop Versus Productivity, and Vista 11 Update Breaks Things Again
Links for the day
Code of Censorship
Extortion is peace
Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has a New Press Kit for the Weekend After Next Weekend (40th Anniversary)
miles better than social [sic] media [sic] quips, moderated by narcissists and oil tycoons.
Microsoft Had Two Waves of Mass Layoffs This Month (That We Know of) and It'll Get Worse for Microsoft Soon
Will the axe fall again by month's end?
Gemini Links 23/09/2025: Happy Equinox, Photronic Arts, and Perception Cognition
Links for the day
Lessons We've Learned After 17 Years of American Hosting
GAFAM is "all-in" with the "Trump agenda"
Back to Normal Now, We Plan to Do More In-Depth Series (or Multi-part Stories)
Articles (or series thereof) that contain philosophy are important to us
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 22, 2025
IRC logs for Monday, September 22, 2025
Microsoft Media is Panicking Amid Mass Layoffs Every Month, H-1B Fees, and "Seattle’s Tech Scene in Trouble"
In "late stage Microsoft", copyleft becomes proprietary
The Next Wave of IBM/Red Hat Layoffs Being Discussed Already
Red Hat is sort of disappearing the way Tivoli did
New Techrights Turns 2
Today starts the third year of the SSG-based Techrights
What Scares Them the Most is Independent News Sites That They Cannot Control and Censor
Wikileaks was a good example of this
If You Don't Control Your Online Platform, Then Someone Else is Controlling You
be (or become) independent
Oracle Started This Year With Slop. Then It Stopped.
Passing fads are like this
Distros That Run on PCs Made 20 Years Ago and Don't Use Systemd
Betas for now
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has a Policy on Racism and Sexism
In then future we'll show the misogyny and racial slurs
The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part I - Abusing British Women on Behalf of American Men Who Abuse American Women
Transparency is important to us, so we've decided to make this series
Slopwatch: Google News and the Evident Slopfarm Infestation
This is what people get about Linux when they query Google for Linux
Links 22/09/2025: Murdochs Might Join Fentanylware (TikTok) 'Investors' (Masters), United Kingdom Recognises Palestinian Statehood
Links for the day
Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Esperanto Music History and Apps For Android
Links for the day
Links 22/09/2025: More American 'Censorship' (Retaliation for Journalism), Cheeto "Might Be Losing His Race Against Time"
Links for the day
The Blob Slop
Give me more words, give me some text
The 50-Pound Note Experiment and the "War on Cash"
Britain is actually seeing a rebound in cash payments, and it's not a temporary phenomenon
Slopwatch: Blaming the Victims for Microsoft's Failures and Plagiarising Phoronix
That's what Google has been reduced to: slop and slopfarms
Links 22/09/2025: Breaches, Windows TCO, and Arrests
Links for the day
Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Rabbit Hole and DeGoogling Fairphone
Links for the day
Links 22/09/2025: Russian War Planes Invade NATO Airspace While Dihydroxyacetone Man Escalates Attack on Free Speech Because of Critics
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 21, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, September 21, 2025