Well... it was fun :)

[tehhaxorr]

I'm the exact opposite, i came from Suse to ubuntu... I HATE RPM, long live the deb system.

[gruffy-06]

Suse is a nicely engineered piece of software, no doubt. It's in a class ahead of everything else. The only thing is that I HATE HATE HATE their package management. It's been broken for years. They don't even need to switch to APT... yum is fine. They just need to really buckle down and fix their repositories.

Package management was OK when I used it, but seemed to be very slow.

In fact, openSUSE versions 10.1 and beyond are a lot slower than before.

And a 1-CD install would be nice.

Looks like openSUSE has already made 1-CD installs. Try searching for SUPER and SLICK on openSUSE. Other than that, you could possibly create your own single installation CD, but that could take a lot of time.

[gruffy-06]

Is there a website where I could view the packages in the SuSE repositories?

For the openSUSE 10.2 packages:
http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...10.2/repo/oss/

For the openSUSE Factory (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!) packages:
http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse...y/inst-source/

Open the suse folder. Each folder contains packages for different systems, ie. x86, ppc, etc. The noarch folder contains packages for all architectures. src contains the source code. These installation sources can also be used for YaST.

[leeyee]

I like SuSE's beauty, but it is KDE specific. In my opinion, KDE is much slower than GNOME, altough I had disabled lots of services of it.

GNOME is neat, and faster. The most important feature for me to be stuck with Ubuntu is its gnome-oriented DE, and the faster update via apt-get.

SuSE is good, but for me, Ubuntu is better.

[happy-and-lost]

Hey, as long as you're happy.

SUSE is a beautiful thing provided your hardware is fully supported (alas, mine is not).

Have fun

[%hMa@?b<C]

Hey, as long as you're happy.

SUSE is a beautiful thing provided your hardware is fully supported (alas, mine is not).

Have fun

SuSE works well on my hardfware, I did get a livecd in a LINUX JOURNAL once, which I found to be kind of appealing, but what kind of put me off was to me it seemed to be more focused on good looks and gui than actual usability.

[BWF89]

For the openSUSE 10.2 packages:
http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...10.2/repo/oss/

For the openSUSE Factory (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!) packages:
http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse...y/inst-source/

Open the suse folder. Each folder contains packages for different systems, ie. x86, ppc, etc. The noarch folder contains packages for all architectures. src contains the source code. These installation sources can also be used for YaST.

Thanks. But doesn't SuSE have something like Ubuntu has where you can type in what your looking for and you get the same info for each package as you would get with apt-get?

[gaspar]

Let me quote it again: Well... it was fun
But in a reverse way. So, I´m a big Ubuntu fan, and after reading about Opensuse 10.2 I decided to give it a try. Well, it really looks nice, but it isn´t for me. Applications take more time to open, the update system is sluggish, and using Yast to add repos and non oss were a bad experience. In a few words, Ubuntu seems to run faster - I do mean faster - in everything.
I´m still using Opensuse, but I don´t think it will last more than a week (time I give to try distro).
Again, it was my impressions, and I´ll stick to Ubuntu again