New subject: [opensuse] Playing With Beta 4

5 Sep 2005

      I just wanted to report that OpenSUSE 10.0-Beta4 installed well on my
recently acquired Dell C610 laptop.  By comparison, I'm using SUSE Pro 9.2
on my primary box.  Here's the good, the bad, and the untried, from my
perspective:

The Good:
<> I do like the unified system menu (same menu across KDE/GNOME/etc.)
<> Boot time is just 55 seconds from boot menu to login (5-7 secs slower
than Ubuntu on the same laptop - not a problem
<> Kodak CX6200 works out of the box (froze up my whole system on 9.2)

The Bad:
<> GNU Emacs and XEmacs in 2 different categories - make up my mind
<> No PostgreSQL
<> No XFce
<> Changing the GNOME theme to "QT" in the Advanced Theme Settings
dialogue caused a number of dialogues popping up about windows not
responding, Nautilus wanting to be shutdown or restarted, etc.  Sorry, I
did not get all the specific messages.  The whole session went wild, with
me needing to use [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Bspace] to exit.

<> Evolution won't let me create new contacts - or events/notes - nothing.
 strange!!!  I did note the warning at intial launch about this being a
beta.  But one would think it would at least let me enter data!

The Untried:
<> Haven't tried my old Handspring Visor - if this works out of the box,
I'll shout "hallelujah".
<> Haven't played with the power management features yet, but so far,
things are going fairly smoothly.
<> Internet Connection - no DSL for my laptop at work (This is a Monday
night or Tuesday task)

These are just initial observations.  I hope this will be useful to the
OpenSUSE team.

Don
-- 
DC Parris     Libre Software Advocate
http://matheteuo.org/
"Hey man, whatever pickles your list!"

Playing With Beta 4

DC Parris

Andreas Jaeger

Don Parris

Sean Kelley

Clayton

Adrian Schroeter

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