[ale] OpenSuSE 10.3

[ibn jaldun]

Dow_Hurst wrote:
> I've just installed OpenSuSE 10.3 on my laptop (Compal FL30).  I'm really enjoying the distro.  It does boot faster, the Software Management tool is much faster, and the convenience factor is way up.  The installation source tool has a community repository option that lets you pick from the build service repositories.  Now, I had downloaded the full 32bit DVD for this laptop install so I didn't have to worry about a internet connection until the system was installed and ready to update itself.  It was definitely a lot smarter about handling the initial kernel update.  I noticed there is a very minimal installation option available again.  I would say that 10.3 is, in quality, a lot like 9.3 or 8.2.  I did choose a lot of the defaults during install for software, such as KDE 3, OpenOffice, and Firefox.  I would definitely recommend this distro so far.  I did find that I needed to pick the nvidiaG01 package off of the nvidia repository.  After that SaX2 had the card, and screen preconfigured quickly.  I thought I'd pass on the experience.  Also VMware workstation does need the latest update of version 6.x to be compatible.  Otherwise you get a compile error on one of the modules during the vmware-config.pl script.
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    Thanks for the review. My experience with it wasn't so good. I did 
the one CD install. I found 10.3 much better than 10.1, but  YAST is 
still too cumbersome and slow.  The boot time did improve. The 
installation was still a bit too long for my taste.  I will try it again 
on a machine with more RAM in a few months. I've heard good things  
about SMART as a package manager; I'll  try it out on my next install.  
My other issue was I couldn't get my gnome-art package working.  I'll 
definitely give it  another shot  after  XMAS.

Regards,

Andy