Recently I gave openSUSE a try just out of pure curiosity. One of their biggest weaknesses is that their community feels like a veritable ghost town. With that said, I wanted to both give kudos, and appreciate how much ubuntuforums.org rock (the people make the forums)!
Here are my top 5 threads that were really ‘cool’ to me:
- HOWTO: installation of E17 from CVS (UPDATED)
- Howto: Install Oracle Instant Client and PHP OCI8 module
- 2.6.24 Zen Ubuntu Kernel – Faster, Stable, More Hardware Support
- Run Exact Audio Copy (EAC) on Linux
- HOWTO: Unlock a LUKS encrypted root partition via ssh
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#1 by matthew on July 25, 2008 - 11:35 am
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Thanks for the Ubuntu Forums shout out.
#2 by rawsausage on July 25, 2008 - 12:06 pm
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OpenSuse has more goodies out of the box, the polishment level is better. Also the target user segment is different from Ubuntu’s. I can’t as OpenSuse user think of anything that I would actually want from the community. Things just work and I can focus on my real life tasks. It’s a bit like using a Mac really, except that it isn’t.
#3 by admin on July 25, 2008 - 12:20 pm
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I have the retail boxes version of openSUSE, and it definitely is not more polished. If you have 3 hard drives, expect to have to setup grub manually. Also if you want it to propose an LVM setup, expect to have to hold it’s hand on that too.
Once you boot up, expect various dialog windows to popup telling you “Failed to get package updates” with no explanation or reason.
Expect a notification icon in the bottom right when you update packages that will only tell you what they do by mouse over, a single or double click will not bring it into a bigger window explaining what it wants.
If during installation it detects an hp printer, expect it to fail installing the hplip driver.
Like a mac? Absolutely not. FYI all of these bugs have been reported, I am not complaining without action.
#4 by rawsausage on July 26, 2008 - 8:06 am
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The error message was a bug and has been fixed already some 2 weeks ago, the update for that is in testing waiting to be bumped ahead.
I can’t see any reason to have 3 hard drives btw, no one commonly needs several terabytes of storage space