4. Switching from 10.3 to 11.1. Forget it I tried it and had to back down. It's riddled with bugs or options with are set up by default and all amount to a terrible mess. As a newbie I have managed for years to get going easily enough with regular openSuse updates and always set up my system, comm line, printer etc. single handed. The thing is, if there is a bug that impedes your machine from shutting down, it will never be solved for 10.3. Your reports will be ignored... that's life.
Also, if you are using a 'new' PC it is just likely that your hardware is newer than your OS, so some things not working is just to be expected.
Then, that bug/problem might have been solved already on a later version. There is also 11.0, if you don't like 11.1. Or you may try "factory", and if it doesn't work, report your problems so that the comming 11.2 version is corrected in time.
Now why do I buck ? You see with the 11.1 mess I decided to now understand
Because it doesn't install/run will on your particular hardware does not equate to it being a "mess". It just means it [maybe] doesn't run well on your particular hardware. I've done a lot of 11.1 installs and encountered only one box were it bombed.
what's Linux all about. I bought myself a combo course with cbt nuggets. It shipped: 1. Linux can't read the DVD's What error?
Playing DVDs works fine for me. To play 'video' DVDs you need to install the proprietary codecs http://software.opensuse.org/codecs. But that is true of any version of any distribution - it is just part of life on LINUX. One-click install on openSUSE makes it a pretty trivial issue.
2. Cbt nuggets sent me the file in bits which I stored on my Desktop 3. Cbt nuggets told me to load VLC soft to read this video file. You can use mplayer or xine to watch videos - but use the version from packman.
Or totem, which I think is the default on GNOME. But I have no idea what "Cbt nuggets" are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org