Anybody give the OpenSUSE 11.3 RC a spin yet?

[sleepitoff]

I'm going to install it on an SD card in a moment and give it a try.

[dca]

I installed it on HP laptop, froze up solid by just trying to correct repository information. Be careful, repos aren't listed as standard OSS, non-OSS, updates & standard has some kind of version added to them. I'm assuming it'll stay like that until release.

[WinterRain]

Since everyone raves about the KDE spin, I'm going to give it a try after release. I'm not going to get my hopes up though. I have found opensuse's package management horrible, and kde, well......

[mooreted]

Yeah, tried it. Every time I try openSuse it's the same thing. Fonts look terrible, package management is terrible, system unstable.

Good luck.

[TheNessus]

It does not support laptops at the moment. I installed it and it doesn't recognize a battery, has no brightness control (and also set too dim) and can't hibernate/sleep. I'll try it again a month after release or so...

[yester64]

Haven't tried it out so far, but i do run opensuse and it runs very well.

Once its officially released i will upgrade, which is actually in a couple of days. Time just passes so fast.

My tip, if you have a running system, don't change it. Unless you happy to adjust to it.
Every new release will have its troubles, so i prepare myself to it. Not sure about the filesystem, i might still stay with ext3.

[NightwishFan]

That is a known bug for KDE. That and an issue with LVM are the remaining main issues. I always keep up to date with OpenSUSE as it used to be my favorite OS. I have tried the M7 of Gnome and I had some issues, but performance is nice.

[ubunterooster]

As Suse goes, it is good in my eyes

[sleepitoff]

I guess everyone's experience is different, but with OpenSUSE 11.2, they provided me with a very nice, very fast, very stable KDE desktop and that's why I have high hopes for 11.3 as well... and I realize their package management system isn't the greatest, but at least it's getting better with time. In older OpenSUSE releases, you could easily cripple your system by a small installation mistake.

And if you have font complaints, look here:
http://opensuse-community.org/SubpixelHinting

That does the trick for me.


(this is 11.2 talk, 11.3 still needs a final release for me :)

[mooreted]

I guess everyone's experience is different, but with OpenSUSE 11.2, they provided me with a very nice, very fast, very stable KDE desktop and that's why I have high hopes for 11.3 as well... and I realize their package management system isn't the greatest, but at least it's getting better with time. In older OpenSUSE releases, you could easily cripple your system by a small installation mistake.

And if you have font complaints, look here:
http://opensuse-community.org/SubpixelHinting

That does the trick for me.


(this is 11.2 talk, 11.3 still needs a final release for me :)

Yeah, tried that. I don't know how Ubuntu does it, but the fonts have perfect, crisp edges and without the blurring of ClearType. Windows and most distros' fonts look blurry or chunky and bothers my eyes.

[celldweller1591]

Tried RC2..its nice :) W8ing for the stable one ..its scheduled on 15th this month. will dual boot it with Lucid and i guess i will surely have to fight some Grub wars !! But its worth the trouble ...