On December Wednesday 24 2008, Rob OpenSuSE scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
2008/12/24 Jerry Houston <jerry@effjayare.net>:
Am I the only one who's happy with v11.1 and KDE4?
For me, 11.1 is a better release than 10.3 was at same stage.
KDE 4 was fine for doing basic things, it was the only Desktop I used during testing, pre-release. I had problems in RC1 when I tried to adjust things to my liking.
There are a lot of problem areas in 11.1; at the end of January or early february, most of the issues will be sorted by updates.
However some users will have been lost, because they tried it, and CD/DVD wouldn't boot, so they slap on Ubuntu 8.10, or Mint or PC Linux OS, and never get to see the advantages openSUSE has.
That is really sad. Because in all honesty, I cannot cope w/ Ubuntu until and unless they get some sort of Yast-like setup system. one location where the majority of things from customization to actual necessities can be easily setup. New printer.. no problem.. and who has not added some piece of hardware to a rock solid system, only to discover that the new bit of hardware heaven put your system into Hardware Hell, until you locate the one line of some configuration document. Just open up Yast, and it wont be too long until you find that nasty little bit of text that usually only needs to be checked or unchecked. :-) And we have so many unsung Suse folks who work their fingers to nubs w/ all the code, scripts and hard work that allow us to all have a really easy time setting everything up, and tweaking things, placing the furniture and hanging pictures, adding drapes and redecorating everything. And we can do all of that we wish, w/o doing something weird to the operating system. And for that all our friends @ Novell/ Suse Opensuse etc a heartfelt vote of thanks. You need not believe us either. just install almost any other distro, and count the time and effort to get it running, ( and here's the tricky part) ,See how long it takes to get the thing up and running w/ all of your "normal" customization. I have become ridiculously spoiled over time, so I set the bar really high. If you don't .... "relax is Linux" so you can pretty well guarantee you will eventually get the thing to work for you, and work as you wish, it'll just take a bit longer. I shall buy the boxed set once again. It's not much but it is much easier than trying to figure what the tip would be. :- D -- j Keep Saturn in Saturnalia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org