[mdlug] OpenSuSE ???

[David Lane]

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.
   
  This Version has more SATA drive support.
   
  David 
  

DRIVERAY at ameritech.net wrote:
  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 


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