On 27 March 2010 12:51, C
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 13:33, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
I have five 11.2 machines used full-time [40+ hours a week] by three people... and it has been extremely stable, performed well, and all features have worked reliably. Kudos 11.2 - great distro.
Same here.. on 4 machines... using them full time, for work and play, all with 11.2 installed, and overall it's working very well... best openSUSE isntall in a long time! Solid stable as a server (running http, ftp. nfs, samba), desktop, media center, game machine, and I'm running it on a netbook, and a reg laptop.
There are a few quirks (including the known annoying bugs), but in almost all cases I can attribute it to me tinkering too much. The only real tweak I've done recently outside of a standard install (plus updates and apps from the Community repos) is on my netbook where I had to bump the kernel up to 2.6.33 to get it working "right".
No errors, no problems with Plasma... no crashes etc.
I wonder what the common factor is with the systems that are not working with 11.2? Is it a specific bit of hardware? A way the desktop is being used or configured? i don't see a pattern in anything anyone has posted.... other than it fails for various random seeming reasons.
Well, I've got two desktops (at home and at the office) with openSUSE 11.2 for x86_64 with KDE 4.3.5, both very stable, no crashes, etc, so I personally am very happy with 11.2 and KDE 4.3.5. And guess what, this week I finally persuaded two colleagues at work to upgrade their openSUSE 11.1 desktops to 11.2. Now, as opposed to me, who likes to use the latest KDE/Openoffice/Mozilla from OBS repos, these guys never enable any repos but the standard update repo and maybe packman. Same hardware/model as my office desktop box. The upgrade went through very smoothly for each of them, they've installed all the latest updates from 11.2 update repo, and now both of them are now experiencing random plasma crashes, visual glitches (like virtual desktop showing an application icon when in fact there are no applications running on that virtual desktop), of XOrd/KWin consuming up to 30-40% of CPU all the time when compositing is turned on. And that's with the stable KDE 4.3.5. I do realize that if we spent enough time googling and digging through openSUSE's/Novell's/KDE's/QT's/Xorg's/name your application here/ bugzillas, we'd finally find a solution for each of these issues, but who's got the time for that when one needs to do some "real" work at the office? This randomness of end-user experience of Linux is sometime just maddening. Regards, Vadym -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org