Comments on: openSUSE 11.1 Review

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By: oren

oren — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:49:48 +0000

does anyone know where i can find a list of supported wireless cards for it? i tried to use ubunut, but no wireless, and i cant acces wired connections

By: Beavis

Beavis — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:25:03 +0000

KDE 4 is a mistake of epic proportions.

Why the KDE team is wasting so much time and energy on it is mindboggling.

There are too many issues and bugs in 11.1, if you are using 10.3 or 11.0, just update the kernel and you are set. Zypper still sucks. Many of the repos listed have broken URL’s. Audio is sketchy, it will work, and then magically stop working until forcing your user account to join various groups. FF3 is very, very slow by default, Flash audio doesn’t work out of the box. In fact many important proprietary packages are missing from the CD. They made it more difficult to play DVD’s or listen to MP3′s.

The list goes on. Polish and attention to detail is lacking. It is almost amusing, 11.0 is more solid and polished then 11.1 is.

By: SafeTinspector

SafeTinspector — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:43:50 +0000

Unlike some of the commentors, I like the SUSE mainmenu (slab) with its quick search box.

I’ve been on the fence about upgrading to 11.1, I’ve been running 10.3 a long time and getting all my laptop’s integrated peripherals to work under 10.3 took me awhile and I stupidly didn’t document everything I did.

Also…. should I switch to KDE or stick with GNome?

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:51:33 +0000

I installed OS11.1 on my Fujitsu Stylistic 5010D (Tablet).
It’s the first time everything worked from the first run. With previous versions I had either problems with WIFI, the video drivers, or video playback.

Some quircks though: the tablet is no longer at com1, but at com5 (took some time to find that out), and the virtual keyboard doesn’t work at the login prompt.

But overall I am very much impressed with it. Performance is also not bad for a 1GHz centrino and 768 MB of Ram…

By: Astinsan

Astinsan — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:27:29 +0000

It works on my eeepc 900 without any modifications. All wifi/net/video/sound works without doing anything to it. It is the best release for all of my machines. I used to only use ubuntu.. but it gave me a lot of issues on my hp laptop so I went suse and haven’t gone back. Suse also has a apt like cmd line program called zypper Its apt to the next level. Nice and clean.

By: Harshdeep

Harshdeep — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:46:00 +0000

I downloaded it and installed on a Intel Pentium 4 socket 478, MSI Micro ATX MB, 3 gb ram and an ide hdd also with Nvidia 8600 gts with 256 MB GDDr3 ram. The processor fan ran aloud all the time. Also, it didn’t recognise the graphics card.
I removed it and installed opensuse 11.0. It runs perfectly fine…Hence 11.1 is just looks yet. It needs more time to be stable.

By: opensuse geek

opensuse geek — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:57:36 +0000

i download opensuse live gnome 11.1 x86 for 32 bit cd and booting up under vmware 1.05 where 11.0 has been there since months, and 11.1 crashes at the boot screen with a two col text menu in the top left over the first green screen. will not boot and throw me at boot: prompt. i typed linux at prompt and went little far in boot sequence to tell kernel crashed. 11.1 needs fixing.
if it doesnt work under vmware (test-bed) it sucks big time. if it dont work on foxconn (the people who sell con’ny motherboard), its understandable. 11.1 needs polish.

By: opensuse geek

opensuse geek — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:54:02 +0000

well i think the app-browser is one of the best things i love in opensuse. i can help you to get around the issue. create a application launcher (short cut) for app-browser on your task bar – click launcher and app-browser opens up. once you have this you type the application you looking for in the left pane of window and like grep, as you keep typing first few characters it narrows down what you looking for speeds up the process. i am in love with app-browser.
if you just like the standard gnome menu why not switch to any other distro, most of the distro have default gnome menu, ubuntu, fedora and much more.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:33:29 +0000

Just one more day to go…