<DIV>As I said I have an off brand Motherboard. I downloaded OpenSUSE 10.2 this week and it was able to auto detect the hardware, that was great however I'm getting curruption errors for the disk image.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This Version has more SATA drive support.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>David </DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>DRIVERAY@ameritech.net</I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I haven't tried SuSE 10.2 on a note book, haven't tried zen, and<BR>I use KDE and thunderbird, not gnome and evolution, so I can't<BR>add to Peter's comments.<BR><BR><BR>Some of the issues I have encountered so far:<BR>There is no kernel level automounter. The actually did away with<BR>subfs with 10.1, most discussion of this seems to date from march<BR>of '06. Subfs was a rather ugly cludge, but it did work, and I<BR>had gotten used to it with 10.0. Now automounting of CDs and<BR>other
removable media is provided only processes of KDE (or I<BR>guess gnome). If you boot to command line, or use a light weight<BR>desktop, you will have to use manual mounting which means setting<BR>up sudo, or giving all user's root. At least this is what I have<BR>been able to discover so far. The system I set up does in fact<BR>use KDE, so it is, so far, a theoretical problem.<BR><BR>The other glaring issue I encountered was that the first online<BR>update decided to scramble my grub menu. I had set it up the way<BR>I wanted it, but the online update decided to add back duplicates<BR>of some entries I had commented out, removed enteries I had<BR>added, and scrambled the menu order. It wasn't hard to put it<BR>back the way I wanted, but grrrr!<BR><BR>Besides these things it seems, so far, to be pretty solid.<BR><BR>Raymond McLaughlin<BR><BR>Peter Bart wrote:<BR><BR>>On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 11:36 -0700, David Lane wrote:<BR>>> What are the issues with
OpenSuSE?<BR>>><BR>>> I was concidering moving to it.<BR>><BR>>David,<BR>>I run opensuse 10.2 on an IBM Thinkpad T30. There is a hack to<BR>>get power consumption down to acceptable levels when suspended.<BR>>The "Zen" updater simply sucks, as does the new improved main<BR>>menu. I killed both, the former in favor of manually updating<BR>>and the latter in favor of the "traditional" Gnome menu. Network<BR>>manager sometimes goes astray, but it's not just opensuse and<BR>>the same for evolution. All in all I'd say I'm very happy with<BR>>it. It seems rock solid, suspends and resumes w/o incident. I<BR>>was up to 45 days uptime before it mistakenly got rebooted.<BR>>Battery life isn't the greatest compared to Ubuntu running on an<BR>>identical machine, but okay. Old batteries and all. I will be<BR>>loading opensuse on this second machine when I get some spare<BR>>time, Ubuntu just doesn't dot as many "i's" as opensuse.
Please<BR>>bear in mind I can only compare to Ubuntu and the Maemo flavor<BR>>of Debian. For my money, it just works.<BR><BR>>Best Regards,<BR>>Peter Bart <PETER@PETERTHEPLUMBER.NET><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mdlug mailing list<BR>mdlug@mdlug.org<BR>http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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