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I haven't configured it as a server yet, wow, so far I have had 'zero' problem with the 11.2 install as a desktop. Granted, I haven't gotten to everything yet, but I have gotten through enough to give an initial take on the desktop install aspect of 11.2. I don't why I did it this way, but my first install was my first successfull 'upgrade' (11.1->11.2) rather than install and it was my first install where I took a kde4 setup to a completely Gnome install. More of a whim really, but I have a few spare drives for my old laptop, so I had downloaded the Gnome live CD and tested it before thinking about an actual install. To my amazement, my wireless was configured properly by the Gnome Live CD (Atheros/madwifi/wpa-supplicant). This is the first time in the history of this particular laptop (since Dec. 2004) that any install has ever gotten the wireless right! All I had to do was enter my ssid, tell it I was using WPA/WPA2 Personal, and enter my passphrase and it -- just connected. I have only done one previous 'install to Gnome' before (10.0 I think) rather than an install to KDE, but since the Live CD did such a good job, I decided I would just go ahead and install from the Live CD and add the KDE repos and install KDE later. Man was that the right choice. Aside from being a bit busy lately, I have been working with enlightenment as my primary desktop, and I had installed gnome along side the already existing KDE/enlightenment/blackbox/lxde desktop so I had no concern about loading it as a primary desktop. The live CD install was the simplist install I had ever done. It took no more than 15 minutes for the very feature/package rich base install. It was completely unremarkable (as an install should be). The old drive that was used was dual boot XP/11.1 where 11.1 had the usual / and /home partitions without a separate /boot. The grub partitioner proposed formatting / as ext4 and preserving the remaining partitions. I just accepted the default proposal. Install completed and I set a regular root password, I just can't stand having root assigned to some admin user like XP, I want a real root. What resulted was a 100% operating new openSuSE operating system. I installed sometime yesterday afternoon and have since installed enlightenment e16 and e17 and compiz and have installed the remaining development packages and server application (not configured yet). On gnome, I have run gnome for the better part of a 24 hour period and not had to file a single bug report. (I have filed 2 in the same time with kde.org from issues with my other laptop) Another refreshing aspect of 11.2 was my sound install -- it works! Not that there is anything special about the sound card (ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller) it just never gets configured correctly on install. Great job! I'm in no hurry to get kde4 loaded. Last count wast 164 bugs filed against it. I'll see what the list traffic looks like and if it looks good I'll load it, if not, I'll wait (I have a busy 6 weeks coming so I don't have the time it takes to keep up with the bug reports right now) The latest enlightenment (E17 from the X11:/Enlightenment repository) is fantastic, as well as the E16 build in that repository. I have been equally impressed with Gnome 2.26. Does everthing I need it to do and has not given me 1 bit of trouble. Great job on packaging those desktops. I'm sure I will have a few bug reports to file in the next week or so on 11.2, but this has been one refreshing change. Good job to the openSuSE team! -- 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