James D. Parra wrote:
Hello,
Looking for a general opinions. Purchased 11 and noticed that there is only one DVD. Were there packages removed that were on 10.3?
Also, are there any 'significant' pluses to using 11.0 over 10.3? Going to rebuild a few servers and wanted to see what the general impressions were from users on this list.
Many thanks,
James
James, 11.0 is worth the install. I haven't found anything not available for 11.0 that was available for 10.3. (I have near complete installs, minus gnome, mono programming, and some python programming) On the huge plus side, yast/zypper repository refresh times have been reduced by at least a factor of 5 if not 10. On the small minus side yast ncurses is much more cumbersome than 10.3 due to the fact that someone forgot to put the accelerator keys [alt]+[p], etc.., in and the interface doesn't default to search. Just makes you brush up a little more on zypper, which for 11.0 adds quite a bit of functionality. 11.0 is clean and with all the updates now, it is as near bullet-proof as 10.3 is, but _do not_ choose KDE4 on the DVD for your desktop. KDE 3.5.9 is excellent. I haven't loaded KDE 3.5.10 because of a few screams across the list, but other than that, 11.0 is fine. I currently have 6 10.3 boxes and 6 11.0 boxes running. If you have newer hardware, then definitely go with 11.0 and from a release lifetime standpoint, you might as well go with 11.0 anyway. 10.3 was Oct. '07, 11.0 was June '08 so you'll be getting 8 more months of service life out of 11.0. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org