On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 22:10 +0500, Gustav Degreef wrote:
My experience was that 11.2 installed without any significant problems on my wife's hp hdx laptop. It is a brand new machine and all of the important hardware (wifi, webcam, NVidia card, etc) worked out of the box or with minor software downloads from the official and community repos. Flash, Java, and all the other sowftware she uses work better than it has for her with 10.3 on an older machine. I needed very little fiddling to get it set up. And she is not a tech person, though has been using linux for 10 years. I'm only hesitating to put it on my hp dv5t because it has taken me time and effort to get 11.0 just the way I like. I'm tempted but also may wait till 11.3. I've no experience with 11.2 on a desktop yet.
I always lay out my disk like this: partition 1: OS 1 partition 2: OS 2 partition 3: swap partition 4: /home Then, I install the new OS to the one I am not enamored of. When/if it seems nice, I start using it. Until then I always have the good one as the default. This also allows me to compare various setting files between them, as I can mount the old one somewhere in the net one. As to my login, I make a test user for the new OS so I do not mess up my settings. This always lets me try the new thing, while keeping the old. With disk sizes and costs, this is a very reasonable setup. -- You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. -- Steve Jobs Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST/OPQ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org