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The first 24 hours with openSUSE 11

Posted on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

Disappointed with the latest release of Ubuntu, I decided to try something else. And here it is, the new openSUSE 11.

From installation to writing this post, i haven’t faced any problems yet. Everything was configured without any problems. The new Nvidia 173.14.09 linux driver release works perfectly. At first, there was no sound and I thought it’s caused by Pulseaudio just like what I’ve experienced in Ubuntu Hardy. But it is solved after a few configuration with alsamixer.

I’ve installed Mozilla Firefox 3, Google Earth, XMMS, K3b, Apache, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Wine, Tremulous, VLC player, Bluefish, and many other applications. Everything works great!! CompizConfig manager is installed by default so you can straight away show off the desktop effects to Vista’s fan around you after the installation.

I have to admit that Ubuntu has the best community support, for example Ubuntuforums. However, openSUSE also provides adequate information and documentation including installation & configuration guides, tutorials and HOWTOs which you can find it at http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation. The community support is also satisfactory although it cannot beat Ubuntu’s community.. for now… :p

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One comment

scorpiom392:

Hey, you are lucky! I was not able to work with it for more that 2 hours. my printer will not configure (HP worked with all other Distros out of the box) under Gnome or KDE 3 only using KDE4 it worked but KDE 4 is un-usable horrible . you should read this blog;