On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Chris Jones wrote:

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Will Stephenson wrote:

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Looking at your signature, I expect you will be interested in the KDE photo and graphics tools (digikam, krita, gwenview, kphotoalbum, etc).  We can always use more testers with domain specialisations.  If you have any feedback on our packaging of them then please let us know about it either as bug reports or at opensuse-kde@opensuse.org.

Will

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Yeah I've used Digikam and Krita before. Sadly, neither of them impressed me. Not for my work purposes anyway. I have to admit, probably 90% of my (paid) work is actually done in Windows XP. I don't want it that way, but that's the nature of proprietry software in the industry I work in. Anyway, I don't want to open that can of worms here.

Back on topic; the only let down for me with 11.3 is the speed up updates and yast. Compared to that of aptitude and yum on Ubuntu and Fedora respectively, openSUSE still has a lot of catchup to do. Still, I'm trying to not let that bother me for now. And while I'm on the topic, is it quicker to update via zypper (if possible) rather than yast2 which I have been using?

Chris, The "normal" way to get updates is to wait for the little icon in the lower right corner to tell you there ready then use the associated GUI to pull them in. But I do think the fastest way is to run "zypper patch" from the command line. I'd also recommend disabling refresh on the oss and non-oss repos. I don't think either of those get updates during the lifetime of a distro, so there is no reason to refresh their indexes. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Richard (MQ) wrote:

On 20/07/10 02:26, Chris Jones wrote:

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I just wanted to congratulate the openSUSE development team on a fine job for a fine release of openSUSE 11.3. It's great! I have not had any luck with previous releases of oS, but finally along came 11.3 and reignited my interest in the oS distro. Well done guys. With a rock-solid 2.6.34 kernel and a very (now) mature KDE4.4, it's super quick.

A bit early to be certain but it certainly looks pretty good and it's definitely quick to install, boot and run. Only time will tell as regards solidity...

On my office machine with Intel graphics, it's been pretty reliable except I had to add "nomodeset" on the grub boot line to get it to wake up after going to sleep. At home I have a older laptop with a Nvidia GeForce 440 Go graphics adapter. Even with "nomodeset" it keeps doing weird things on the GUI. fyi: AIUI, nomodeset causes the older more stable graphics drivers to be used, not the new KMS system. I haven't tried the proprietary nvidia driver yet. I was really hoping to stay GPL like I've done in the past on that laptop, but it's not looking good for that at the moment. And I don't think the openSUSE nvidia repos for 11.3 are up just yet. (If they are, can some post the url?) fyi: I've got an open bug, but I can't get the weird issues to repeat, so I haven't updated it. They just bounce around from one part of X to another. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org