OpenSuse 10.2 Review
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| I looked at OpenSuse 10.2 as a Win2k replacement. I've been
| impressed with Suse over the years so I was looking forward to
| see what Novell brought to the table with 10.2. Like I said before,
| I am not going to judge a distribution on its setup process (OS
| installation, mp3 setup, flash setup, adding printer, etc), however
| I am going to mention some installation pitfalls I ran into during
| the 10.2 install.
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http://www.newluna.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=28
openSUSE 10.2
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| Conclusion
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| openSUSE is a stable, fast and very powerful distribution,
| capable of anything Linux without having to do a lot of extra
| work, as there are RPM-packages for virtually everything. It
| is not the most user-friendly distribution, as the installation
| gives the user some tough choices (although hitting next will
| give a good default, I think such options should be hidden away
| from the beginners) and playing DVDs and listening to MP3s or
| WMAs, or watching live-content from the web, is not possible
| without installing unofficial packages. Finding and installing
| these packages feels like breaking the law, as there's
| warnings all over the official documentation warning agains
| making such content possible - but it isn't illegal, unless
| you live in the USA.
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| If you are a power-user you will not feel in any way cheated
| for options. Even though YaST is a GUI for managing virtually
| everything, it doesn't hide any options, and even if you feel
| like hacking your configurations on your own, feel free to do
| so. If something goes wrong, it's easy to restore
| configurations with YaST. Some parts, especially the
| package-manager, is quite slow as it does a lot of
| unnecessary tasks before and after you install anything
| (like it always updates your list of fonts, even when
| you haven't installed or removed any fonts).
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| If you're a beginner there's easier distributions out
| there, but not necessarily better, as openSUSE is fast
| and very stable, but it's just not that intuitive.
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http://friendlylinux.org/2007/01/22/opensuse-102/
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