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jepong
March 24th, 2008, 07:04 AM
First and foremost, I'm a Ubuntu user but still looking for a Linux distro best for my old ThinkPad R30... so far Ubuntu suit my taste. But there's still one distro in my radar and thats SuSe... and that might be openSuSe 11 come this May.

I tried openSuSe 10.3 on my machine but it boots kinda slow so I really quit on SuSe and have Ubuntu Gutsy on it for quite sometimes now until i upgraded to Hardy beta which gives me ore problem now.

I tried openSuSe 11 just this weekend with the installer and I'm so amazed that openSuSe detected my IBM ThinkPad R30 very well (i hope Ubuntu can adapt this) and slow boot I experienced with 10.3 is gone a little bit but the problem was the sound (its still alpha so i'm not complaining) was not functioning well.

I still believe opneSuSe is the distro for me.
Incense
March 24th, 2008, 07:21 PM
I'm glad to hear that 11 is working out for you. I'm very excited watching the development. They are saying that YaST package managment has finally been sped up. Has this been your experience?
NightwishFan
March 24th, 2008, 07:22 PM
OpenSUSE does not agree with my hardware but I like its KDE.
Antman
March 24th, 2008, 09:57 PM
... but I like its KDE.

+1
IMHO openSUSE has the best looking KDE theme out there!!
RedDwarf
March 24th, 2008, 10:29 PM
They are saying that YaST package managment has finally been sped up. Has this been your experience?
You can use the new libzypp on 10.3 adding these two repositories:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/zypp:/Backport/openSUSE_10.3/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/YaST:/Backport/openSUSE_10.3/

Yes, NOW it's fast. There is still room for improvements (package/repository priorities...), but the speed isn't an issue anymore.
jepong
March 25th, 2008, 01:42 AM
Honestly, I'm not confortable with YaST... i like Synaptic, thats why I'm using ubuntu right now... I'll give SuSe a try again this weekend.
Antman
March 25th, 2008, 09:40 PM
You can use the new libzypp on 10.3 adding these two repositories:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/zypp:/Backport/openSUSE_10.3/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/YaST:/Backport/openSUSE_10.3/

Yes, NOW it's fast. There is still room for improvements (package/repository priorities...), but the speed isn't an issue anymore.

Thank goodness this can be used on 10.3... =D>