[opensuse] brief thoughts on 10.2
I installed 10.2 opting for the Gnome UI. I like the new UI, but find looking for stuff not on the first pane to be slow coming up with the other window. My HP-F335 all-in-one was totally supported right out of the box, leaving only the scanner end of it to be configured. A nice change from 10.0. ZMD - what can I say? It still has a few gotcha's, currently my "orb" is DOA. Adding Channels - I'm not sure why they have to be synced with ZENnetworks, which seems to be either problematic or grossly time consuming, resulting in their not syncing at all. KDE - I think this iteration, as presented, puts it on a usability par with Gnome. In either UI case, I'm definitely more partial to the older style menu system. Neither one stands out as speedier than the other. Logitech Quickcam Messenger - This is the first time that I have seem a module installed for this camera, out of the box. No applications to use with it, but the module. I installed Ekiga, and managed to get a configuration to include the detected camera, but only black screen where the picture should be. Speed - This version is putting me in mind of the problem that I had with 9.3 which forced me over to Gnome for the duration of that install. The system is noticibly slower than my 10.0 install, and crawls when I use wget to grab an iso writing to my USB-Drive. No show stoppers for me, and a number of things that I do like about it, enough to keep using it for now at least. I wonder what part of my slowness problem is due to Beagle running on my 733mhz Celeron with 512 M of ram, though when I was testing Sled10 with Beagle running, I did not experience this slowdown. NOTE: I would prefer to keep Beagle running, I like the search function of it, having used it several times. I do have the source to quickcam driver module, and could actually remove the provided one and install it qc-usb-messenger-1.6, but I'm curious as to which version of the driver that I'm running. I did a search in YaST's Software module filtered for provide and spec'ed quickcam but got no results. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, January 27, 2007 2:37 pm, Mike McMullin said:
The system is noticibly slower than my 10.0 install, and crawls when I use wget to grab an iso writing to my USB-Drive.
No show stoppers for me, and a number of things that I do like about it, enough to keep using it for now at least. I wonder what part of my slowness problem is due to Beagle running on my 733mhz Celeron with 512 M of ram, though when I was testing Sled10 with Beagle running, I did not experience this slowdown. NOTE: I would prefer to keep Beagle running, I like the search function of it, having used it several times.
I do have the source to quickcam driver module, and could actually remove the provided one and install it qc-usb-messenger-1.6, but I'm curious as to which version of the driver that I'm running. I did a search in YaST's Software module filtered for provide and spec'ed quickcam but got no results.
I have noticed that when I do get this thing up and running, it is VERY sluggish. I have a AMD64 x2 3800+ 2gb Dual Channel RAM, four SATA drives (two are RAID) and I hate to say it, XP is a LOT faster. :-O I also installed another distro as well because I'm trying to figure out this bootloader problem I am having, once I had that distro up and running, it was way responsive. It also only took less than 25 minutes to install. EAch time I have installed 10.2, it has been at LEAST 45 minutes, and that's being kind. :-) I'm hoping to solve my problem though. I like openSuSe, but I'm getting the feeling inside that this isn't the place for newbies to ask question. :-( -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 17:37 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
I installed 10.2 opting for the Gnome UI. I like the new UI, but find looking for stuff not on the first pane to be slow coming up with the other window. My HP-F335 all-in-one was totally supported right out of the box, leaving only the scanner end of it to be configured. A nice change from 10.0. ZMD - what can I say? It still has a few gotcha's, currently my "orb" is DOA. Adding Channels - I'm not sure why they have to be synced with ZENnetworks, which seems to be either problematic or grossly time consuming, resulting in their not syncing at all. KDE - I think this iteration, as presented, puts it on a usability par with Gnome. In either UI case, I'm definitely more partial to the older style menu system. Neither one stands out as speedier than the other. Logitech Quickcam Messenger - This is the first time that I have seem a module installed for this camera, out of the box. No applications to use with it, but the module. I installed Ekiga, and managed to get a configuration to include the detected camera, but only black screen where the picture should be. Speed - This version is putting me in mind of the problem that I had with 9.3 which forced me over to Gnome for the duration of that install. The system is noticibly slower than my 10.0 install, and crawls when I use wget to grab an iso writing to my USB-Drive.
No show stoppers for me, and a number of things that I do like about it, enough to keep using it for now at least. I wonder what part of my slowness problem is due to Beagle running on my 733mhz Celeron with 512 M of ram, though when I was testing Sled10 with Beagle running, I did not experience this slowdown. NOTE: I would prefer to keep Beagle running, I like the search function of it, having used it several times.
I do have the source to quickcam driver module, and could actually remove the provided one and install it qc-usb-messenger-1.6, but I'm curious as to which version of the driver that I'm running. I did a search in YaST's Software module filtered for provide and spec'ed quickcam but got no results.
One other thing, in the three times I've had the boot disk in the system, doing an install or update, not once have I run across the option to do a media check. Did this get dropped for some reason? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Mike McMullin wrote:
One other thing, in the three times I've had the boot disk in the system, doing an install or update, not once have I run across the option to do a media check. Did this get dropped for some reason?
I've been running SuSE since 6.4, and AFAIR, it only showed up in 9.3 as a Yast menu item. It is still there. In 10.2 it is also a part of the install routine, but it never was a boot item. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Charles R. Buchanan
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Mike McMullin