OpenSuse = Windows Vista for linux?

[unplugged23]

Hey there,

I was dual booting ubuntu and OpenSuse for awhile just to try out some of the different linux distros, and i pretty much hated suse It was slow, laggy, crashed a lot and generally a pain in the butt. I hated the guts out of all of my drivers, audio and video. And it didn't seem to care to much for system stability. Sorry if any of you out there are big fans of OpenSuse, but im just curious to see if anyone else had en experience like I did with it.

[perlluver]

It was just way to slow for me, thanks to Yast. I prefer to use Ubuntu, Or a debian derivative, they seem to be faster, and catch dependencies better. But that just might be me.

[jrusso2]

It was just way to slow for me, thanks to Yast. I prefer to use Ubuntu, Or a debian derivative, they seem to be faster, and catch dependencies better. But that just might be me.

Last time I tried it was like OpenSuse 11.1 but I agree with what you said and had the same experience. I expect more out of a company like Novell.

[unplugged23]

Last time I tried it was like OpenSuse 11.1 but I agree with what you said and had the same experience. I expect more out of a company like Novell.

But then again Novell works a lot with Microsoft...

[Sorivenul]

But then again Novell works a lot with Microsoft...

FUD.

This is covered many times in many places around the forums. Despite the often excellent explanations and opinions on the matter, the original statements, "straight from the horse's mouth", offer a more orderly and informative approach. Examining the following will hopefully help clarify the Novell-Microsoft agreement for others:
Novell and Microsoft - Working Together for Customers (From Novell)
Open Letter to the Community (From Novell)
Microsoft and Novell Collaborate (From Novell)
Microsoft & Novell Interoperability Collaboration (From Microsoft)
Microsoft and Novell Collaboration FAQ (From Microsoft)
Novell and Microsoft - Interoperability (Joint Project)

[haemulon]

FUD.

This is covered many times in many places around the forums. Despite the often excellent explanations and opinions on the matter, the original statements, "straight from the horse's mouth", offer a more orderly and informative approach. Examining the following will hopefully help clarify the Novell-Microsoft agreement for others:
Novell and Microsoft - Working Together for Customers (From Novell)
Open Letter to the Community (From Novell)
Microsoft and Novell Collaborate (From Novell)
Microsoft & Novell Interoperability Collaboration (From Microsoft)
Microsoft and Novell Collaboration FAQ (From Microsoft)
Novell and Microsoft - Interoperability (Joint Project)

Thanks for the links very helpful.

I really like openSuse 11.1. Very stable and responsive. The Yast Control Center makes it easy to do any of the system configuration and install hardware, basically everthing pertaining the system is there.

Yast is working just fine, a bit slow at times, but not always.

Novell has contributed much to Linux. OpenOffice is a great program and Novell gets much credit for that.

If you don't like openSuse you have a choice.

[dca]

FUD.

This is covered many times in many places around the forums. Despite the often excellent explanations and opinions on the matter, the original statements, "straight from the horse's mouth", offer a more orderly and informative approach. Examining the following will hopefully help clarify the Novell-Microsoft agreement for others:
Novell and Microsoft - Working Together for Customers (From Novell)
Open Letter to the Community (From Novell)
Microsoft and Novell Collaborate (From Novell)
Microsoft & Novell Interoperability Collaboration (From Microsoft)
Microsoft and Novell Collaboration FAQ (From Microsoft)
Novell and Microsoft - Interoperability (Joint Project)

...okay, I've read it... This means that Novell SLES(D) will be the only OS allowed to legally (based off EULA) virtualize any MS sku. MS hates the idea that no real enterprise is willing to run their server products on bare iron anymore, namely using *nix as host and running a couple of Win2k3 server vm(s) inside. (That's the part that kills them). These are not informative and I'm not trying to sound like the 'boycott Novell' website either. This explains nothing! I still haven't found any reason for Novell to sign a patent co-op, isn't an NDA good enough? When all is said and done, Mono will only be able to be run on SuSE... Read the open letter to the community again. This sounds like if you run anything other than Novell w/ MS in a heterogeneous environment you will be sued. The part that I didn't see was it is stipulated (I'll have to find it, it's great) that these patent and working together follies ONLY cover SLES(D), NOT openSuSE.... By the by, why wouldn't Novell issue a statement like that about 'we don't agree w/ MS on the patent issue'? They're customers would already be indemnified anyways...

[Sorivenul]

The KDE version of openSUSE, though pretty, gave me headaches. The GNOME version was a vast improvement for me actually, and very few issues, though I'm not a fan of YaST2. SLED gave me far fewer issues.

[unplugged23]

The KDE version of openSUSE, though pretty, gave me headaches. The GNOME version was a vast improvement for me actually, and very few issues, though I'm not a fan of YaST2. SLED gave me far fewer issues.

I ran gnome from the start as I'm not a huge fan of KDE, although ill use it when in comes to something like slackware.

[Greg]

Yast2 is very much a love/hate thing. Personally, I find Yast more usable than Synaptic, although I like debians over rpms...