Comments on: Review: openSUSE 11.3 KDE

By: John

John — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:27:17 +0000

I have tryed the new OpenSUSE. But if you want install some applications many seems to missing. Like aMSN who are in all the other distributions. What reason do they have to not include it in the software library?
I find PCLinuxOS much easier for a ordinary user.

By: Observer

Observer — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:08:33 +0000

Fair review but when comparing openSUSE KDE (version 4 still raw and immature) with Ubuntu Gnome (version 2 at its most refined and stable stage), it becomes an unfair comparison. Also, if you had read the openSUSE statistics website (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Statistics) you would have known that most openSUSE installs (71.6%) are via DVD media (plus 11.4% via ftp – net install cd) and that would be where the development engineers concentrate most of their testing (“When downloading patches, the updater will also submit the installation method. This is very important for the openSUSE project to know as to know what installation method needs how much prerelease testing”). The openSUSEkde4 live-cd installs represent only about 9.2% and might get less attention and testing than the dvd media from the project developers and testers and I have found them less reliable in the past, though they will no doubt get greater use in future and become as thoroughly tested as the dvd media. If anyone wants to truly judge the quality and suitability of openSUSE, they should use the DVD install media (or, if they have a fast Internet connection, net install cd), IMO!

Secondly, there is an old flaw in OpenOffice kde4 integration that is in opeSUSE 11.2 kde4 which is still to be found in 11.3 kde4 and in Mint9-KDE4 (Kubuntu 10.4) that no reviewer has picked up and leads me to conclude that most Linux reviewers are amateurish and don’t do serious reviews. The following is the flaw: OOo Writer locks up when trying to copy and paste text (for document file title) from the open document and into the location (filename) form/block/tab. The workaround is to remove an OOo kde4 integration package (not sure what name it actually has) and to use keyboard to type in the filename.

By: Zac

Zac — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:36:31 +0000

I really want to like OpenSuse but I just can’t warm to it. I’ve had trouble with the prior version on my garden variety Dell, but this current version is ok. OpenSuse 11.3 technically works fine on my PC, as does Ubuntu. The look of OpenSuse (KDE) looks quite polished, they done a good job. I dislike the KDE kicker menu, it complicates matters and is untidy.

So why don’t I use OpenSuse?
1. I still haven’t warmed to KDE, and I dislike the kicker menu.
2. I would like if OpenSuse separate from Novell.
3. I haven’t got a satisfactory answer to the path or goals that OpenSuse want to take, apart from being used by Novell for their enterprise offering.
4. I like that Canonical/Ubuntu has goals that they are aiming for.

At the end of the day I choose Ubuntu solely due to non-technical reasons – the same reason I choose not to use Windows.

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By: arthur levine

arthur levine — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:12:27 +0000

SimplyMepis8.5
IMHO, the best of the KDE distro’s, actually, IMHO, the best distro, period. For me it is anyway.
Since there’s lots of different ways that people as individuals think and work and learn, it’s really great that there are lots of iterations of all sorts of environments, I am always amazed that there are people who prefer and promote distro’s that I cannot stand to use.
But, as “they” say, “different strokes for different folks”. I wouldn’t want it any other way.

By: Eddie Wilson

Eddie Wilson — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:56:27 +0000

Nice review. OpenSuse is a very polished looking distro. (As polished as KDE can be) You are correct when you say that suse is not for the faint of heart and that’s okay. There are other distros that can take up the mantel of beginner linux distros. Most major distros do have a place in the linux community. I have the Gnome version on one of my partitions and it is very nice. It does feel a little heavy but there are just too many things that can affect performance to blame it on the distro. Depending on what you need in a distro, openSuse may be good for someone who loves power.

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