[mdlug] OpenSuSE ???

[DRIVERAY at ameritech.net]

I haven't tried SuSE 10.2 on a note book, haven't tried zen, and
I use KDE and thunderbird, not gnome and evolution, so I can't
add to Peter's comments.


Some of the issues I have encountered so far:
There is no kernel level automounter. The actually did away with
subfs with 10.1, most discussion of this seems to date from march
of '06. Subfs was a rather ugly cludge, but it did work, and I
had gotten used to it with 10.0. Now automounting of CDs and
other removable media is provided only processes of KDE (or I
guess gnome). If you boot to command line, or use a light weight
desktop, you will have to use manual mounting which means setting
up sudo, or giving all user's root. At least this is what I have
been able to discover so far. The system I set up does in fact
use KDE, so it is, so far, a theoretical problem.

The other glaring issue I encountered was that the first online
update decided to scramble my grub menu. I had set it up the way
I wanted it, but the online update decided to add back duplicates
 of some entries I had commented out, removed enteries I had
added, and scrambled the menu order. It wasn't hard to put it
back the way I wanted, but grrrr!

Besides these things it seems, so far, to be pretty solid.

Raymond McLaughlin

Peter Bart wrote:

>On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 11:36 -0700, David Lane wrote:
>> What are the issues with OpenSuSE?
>>
>> I was concidering moving to it.
>
>David,
>I run opensuse 10.2 on an IBM Thinkpad T30. There is a hack to
>get power consumption down to acceptable levels when suspended.
>The "Zen" updater simply sucks, as does the new improved main
>menu. I killed both, the former in favor of manually updating
>and the latter in favor of the "traditional" Gnome menu. Network
>manager sometimes goes astray, but it's not just opensuse and
>the same for evolution. All in all I'd say I'm very happy with
>it. It seems rock solid, suspends and resumes w/o incident. I
>was up to 45 days uptime before it mistakenly got rebooted.
>Battery life isn't the greatest compared to Ubuntu running on an
>identical machine, but okay. Old batteries and all. I will be
>loading opensuse on this second machine when I get some spare
>time, Ubuntu just doesn't dot as many "i's" as opensuse. Please
>bear in mind I can only compare to Ubuntu and the Maemo flavor
>of Debian. For my money, it just works.

>Best Regards,
>Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>