El Thursday 30 October 2008 06:52:17 Rajko M. escribió:
Got to add that to one boring page: http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Time_Machine
What an odd page! My experience with Suse started with 8.0, a boxed version with a manual that I bought from a UK internet vendor in the early years of the century. I bought nearly every boxed version after that until the Novell acquisition caused the closure of the UK retail operation. It really was a good product then, and well ahead of Mandrake, probably only because YAST was a single place to go for setups. I fell out of love with the series with OpenSuse 10.1, upon which I never got software updating to work at all. then 10.2 came along and my wifi card stopped working because of the removal of some non-open binary stuff from the kernel module. I went Ubuntu which worked flawlessly and with far less bother than Suse ever caused me. My home machine is still running Ubuntu, and it has never once stopped working, nor have I had a single application crash. It has updated OS versions twice while running, and just worked. I needed a distro for this HP 2133 before I came to Africa, and because the device is sometimes sold with SLED I decided to try OpenSuse 11.0 The only real problem in installation was getting the wifi to work. I had to download a non-free binary for this one, but a script to do so was supplied with the distro, although it took an hour or so of internet searching to find out. No luck yet with the integral webcam. Its been OK. I've stuck to Gnome because the default KDE 4 just was not happy at this screen resolution - overlapping icons, a lot of clutter, things I did not recognise, things I had to click in the wrong place - and I chose not to spend time working on it. There have been problems, like the kernel bug that means my walkman is not mounted, the synaptics touchpad that stops working if you have the temerity to change settings within Gnome, GDM starting incorrectly, and the frequent total lockups that require a powerdown to cure. Those latter may be a VIA/HP problem, of course. I'm still baffled why print-to-file pdfs can be opened by evince but are blank in Acrobat reader 8. But there you go. But it is much better than the Vista that this machine came with and a bit better than XP. OpenOffice can handle long documents without mangling them like M$word does, I can write scripts to record radio programmes, and it will run VOIP and connect to wifi nodes without fuss or bother. The wifi signal strengths are meaningful, unlike those from Redmond. I still think YAST is a good reason to use Suse, and the latest package manager front end(s?) are very good indeed. I've spent about 20 minutes a day, on average, since leaving home on keeping it working. That's around half of what it would have been on XP and a lot more than I expected after my recent Ubuntu experiences. But at least I've not given any more money to Mr Gates, to make the Vista he already sold with it work properly. As to KDE 3 Vs 4 I think there are some very real causes for concern in what I have read, and I am not sure what the KDE developers think they are doing. But since I have prematurely abandoned both on here I have no contributory opinion. Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org