Tell us your experience with the NEW "OpenSuse v10.2"

[dvarsam]

Hello!

I am still downloading the "OpenSUSE v10.2"...
It takes forever to download...
I have been downloading for 2 days...
And I am still at 33% download...
However, for those that have already downloaded & installed it:

Can you please tell us how it went & what has improved?

Thanks.

P.S.> I just noticed that there is a SUSE subforum.
Can somebody move this post in there... thanks.

[verby]

mine actually downloaded very fast (well few hrs) BUT...
couldn't install it on my system :-? the instalation did not even started.
i have ati card and suse has BIG problem with some of those cards... what card are you using? maybe you are wasteing your time:-k
good luck

[RAV TUX]

moving to the Suse forum

[dvarsam]

Hello!

Mine actually downloaded very fast (well few hrs) BUT...
couldn't install it on my system :-?
The installation did not even start.
I have ati card and Suse has BIG problem with some of those cards...
What card are you using?
Maybe you are wasting your time:-k
Good Luck

Maybe because you downloaded the 5 CDs.
Try to install the SUSE DVD instead.
Back in Suse v10.1, when I was attempted to install from the CDs, installation was not successful (It was full of errors)!
Only the DVD worked fine with me.
I don't remember what my Graphics Card is.
But I am sure that it is an NVidia one.

Good Luck to you too!

P.S.> I am still downloading it - I have been downloading for 3 full days up to now & I am still on 48%!!!

[Circus-Killer]

the opensuse installer failed on me horribly in multiple places, on multiple machines. the cd's are now lying in my trashcan. and considering it costs me R100/GB, downloading trash can be an expensive waste.

the funny thing is, i wasnt ever going to leave ubuntu, the opensuse was for my folks. well, guess they not switching to that either.

[dvarsam]

Hello!

the OpenSuse installer failed on me horribly in multiple places, on multiple machines.
The CD's are now lying in my trashcan.
And considering it costs me R100/GB, downloading trash can be an expensive waste.
The funny thing is, I wasn't ever going to leave Ubuntu, the OpenSuse was for my folks. well, guess they not switching to that either.

Installation from CDs for OpenSuse v10.1 failed for me too!
That is why, I have suggested:

Try to install the SUSE DVD instead.

OpenSuse v10.1 install has worked with me fine!
But the OpenSuse Forums are not so good!
That is why I had dumped the whole Suse project...
... And still remain with the Ubuntu community.
However, I am willing to give it another try!
(Besides, the codec installation & Networking in Ubuntu is still in "primitive" stage).

Thanks.

P.S.> I have not tested OpenSuse v10.2 yet, I am still downloading...

[PeteNJ]

I downloaded the DVD and burned it but it wouldn't boot. I tried a few different disks but got the same result. I ended up installing it over the Internet. It took a while (about 5 hours) but it worked. I really hated the package manager. Adding new repos was a slow process and having to read and parse each repo was a slow process that needed to be done each time I started YAST2. Even grabbing updates that the update monitor picked out was a problem. It kept complaining about things not being signed.Even when I turned that check off it didn't hold the setting, I had to change it each time before I started downloading. It was also annoying that it kept asking for a CD when I did updates. Clicking OK dismissed that dialog box and things worked but it was annoying. I missed automatix but I have played with enough distros to know what packages I needed and found them all easily enough. The openSUSE K-Menu is nice and everything else I tried worked fine. It's still on my Test Distro partition but I didn't see anything that would made me promote it to Main Distro over Kubuntu.

[Maggot]

Download went fast, install went smoothly on Dell XPS Gen2 notebook.
As always with openSUSE, wireless worked out of the box. Starting to finally warm up the the menu system. I've had a couple KDE programs crash on me (KMail, Konqueror). Some things I like about KDE, a lot of things I like about gnome. I can never pick one and stick with it.

Its slower than ubuntu during boot times. Ubuntu booted in 29 seconds from menu to login screen. openSUSE takes 50 seconds.

yast software manager seems to be quicker than previous versions but not as fast as ubuntu's synaptic.

Installing my nvidia graphics driver was as simple as adding the nvidia repo.

One thing about KDE I've notice over gnome is that when I browse my network over smb:// KDE will allow me to cycle through pictures using the "next" arrow whereas gnome I have to individually open and close each picture. Most gnome programs won't allow/see my files over smb unless I hard mount it.

I've only been running openSUSE since the day it was released but its not bad. That was the distro I was using before the switch to ubuntu. Not sure at this point if/when I'll go back to ubuntu on my laptop. My server will stay ubuntu.

[GonZo1323]

I liked it install went rather smooth for me, only problem is i can't remeber how to get java mp3 and that good support.
Will be interesting to see if it detects my tv tuner on my other cd.
Kind of wished it had a live demo like ubuntu

[ibanez]

I liked it install went rather smooth for me, only problem is i can't remeber how to get java mp3 and that good support.
Will be interesting to see if it detects my tv tuner on my other cd.
Kind of wished it had a live demo like ubuntu

there will be a live version in a week or so according to opensuse.org :)

[neowolf]

Hello!



Maybe because you downloaded the 5 CDs.
Try to install the SUSE DVD instead.
Back in Suse v10.1, when I was attempted to install from the CDs, installation was not successful (It was full of errors)!
Only the DVD worked fine with me.
I don't remember what my Graphics Card is.
But I am sure that it is an NVidia one.

Good Luck to you too!

P.S.> I am still downloading it - I have been downloading for 3 full days up to now & I am still on 48%!!!

Using the DVD would not help at all, sorry to flame but if you don't know what you are talking about don't misinform people, it simply wastes their time. If you have been downloading for 3 full days and are at 48% you must either have a very slow internet connection or be on a slow mirror, try another one, mirrors.kernel.org is usually pretty fast.
Second, openSUSE 10.2 is using X.org 7.2 which means that the propriety ATI driver won't work, although this is not shipped with the distribution, so it must be another problem with the driver YaST/SaX is trying to load. It is possible to do a test-mode install I think...

As an answer to the topic, I've had openSUSE 10.2 dual-booting on my setup with WinXP since it was released and I like it very much, it has good inter-op between GNOME and KDE with both looking great with new menus and other enhancements, the package management system is working fine now and I think it is one of the best.

[dvarsam]

Hello & thanks for your replies!

Using the DVD would not help at all, sorry to flame but if you don't know what you are talking about don't misinform people, it simply wastes their time.

Sorry, but I am not misinforming people...
A flash back to my experience with OpenSUSE v10.1 was the following:

1. Tried the 5 OpenSuse v10.1 CDs & did not install (they crashed & created errors!!!)
2. Tried the 1 OpenSuse v10.1 DVD & it did work!!!

After my personal experience, why should I suggest to people to download the DVD?
If you had the same experience, like me, would you suggest to people to download the 5 CDs instead?

If you have been downloading for 3 full days and are at 48% you must either have a very slow Internet connection or be on a slow mirror, try another one, mirrors.kernel.org is usually pretty fast.

I have an ADSL 768Kb/sec Internet connection.
It might not be considered too fast, but the download was coming slow...
And I had decided to download using "Deluge Bittorrent Client", so that the download is faster...

If this makes you feel better:
When I had finished downloading and opened the folder where the download files were being copied, to my own surprise, I realized that:

1. Instead of having 1 .iso DVD file of 4700Mb size,
2. I found 5 .iso CD files!!! (about 600Mb size each one!!!)

#@$%&*%^**

I am very disappointed after all this...!!!
And I hate going through the same download suffering - especially thinking that I might open the download folder - & finding again 5 .iso CD files....!!!
How can I be 100% sure that I am downloading the DVD file?
What I have downloaded, it was listed as 1 file - i.e. the DVD file...

As an answer to the topic, I've had openSUSE 10.2 dual-booting on my setup with WinXP since it was released and I like it very much, it has good inter-op between GNOME and KDE with both looking great with new menus and other enhancements, the package management system is working fine now and I think it is one of the best.

Thanks for your valuable Feedback!

[agger]

Well, I downloaded and burned the install CD and installed on a Dell Pentium Dual Core with an nVidida graphics card without too much trouble - it works really well, and installing codecs and DVD playback capability was quite easy too - Google was a good friend here :)

All in all, I must say that apart from the fact that YaST is nowhere neat as good as synaptic, OpenSUSE 10.2 is a really good experience - maybe not quite as good as Ubuntu 6.06, buy more updated - and considerably less shaky than Ubuntu 6.10

In my experience, that is! Hope Ubuntu 7.o4 will be even better ;-)

But till now, OpenSUSE 10.2 is an impressive distro.

[justin whitaker]

I asked the folks at MadTux to send me a DVD, and I installed this a week ago: it's very very polished.

I'm going to try out the latest versions of Fedora and Mandrake before I decide which to keep as my desktop, but you really cannot go wrong with OpenSUSE: it's fairly quick, well presented, has just about anything you care to install, and is fairly bleeding edge.

[pain of salvation]

I am using openSUSE 10.2 as my default distro now. I must say: this is a great distro. Very polished, fast, stable...