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- amfantasy, on 12/14/2008, -0/+2I found OpenSuse to have an amazing desktop. Who else ships a solid KDE 3.5, Gnome, KDE 4, and xkce?
- felipe1982, on 12/18/2008, -0/+1kde4-ark sucks balls. And dolphin is redundant. Not openSUSE's problems though; KDE's.
- mozaic2001, on 12/14/2008, -0/+1sounds good,,,,
- shethinkmefunny, on 12/15/2008, -0/+1It was 11.1 RC1, and no, I did not install any additional packages. Frankly, if an RC fails to install correctly from the disk, not even touching the online repositories, there are some serious QA problems.
I expect dependency hell from a beta distro, but not the initial install of a release candidate...
Maybe I just expect too much from RPM. It's a shame too because I've always heard such good things about OpenSUSE. - KevinDupuy, on 12/17/2008, -0/+1http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/12/16/comments-on ...
Our official response, from our former Chairman of the Board for the openSUSE Project. - shethinkmefunny, on 12/14/2008, -1/+1The installer is gorgeous, it just didn't work on my machine. It first failed to install DHCP with an RPM error, and then more and more packages started failing to install, as more and more packages those relied on had failed to install prior. Thought I had a bad burn so I burned it from another drive and verified the MD5 sum. Same problems, different packages. Tried turning off image-based installation, and didn't make any progress either, unless you count still different packages failing to install progress.
I've heard OpenSuSe has an excellent KDE desktop, but until they can put some substance behind the eye candy, each release gives me nothing but a bunch of ruined DVD's in my wastebasket. In retrospect, I should have tried it in VirtualBox first >_<
OpenSuSe is the only distro I've ever tried that simply won't install on my machine, which is as non-exotic as they get, a Dell Dimension 8400. - Mejogid, on 12/14/2008, -1/+1What seems to be more significant is very poor performance, at least in the RC according to http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article& ... . Does anybody know what the cause could be (given debug code is almost certainly off in a release candidate) and whether there's any easy fix? I generally try to at least give most big distro releases a quick go in a virtual machine, but if performance is really that poor i'm not optimistic.
- KevinDupuy, on 12/14/2008, -1/+1What version of openSUSE? 11.0, the current version (until Thursday), or a pre-release of 11.1?
Did you choose to add any additional software catalogs, which required the Internet? If so, it's probably an Internet problem. If not, it's more likely a DVD drive issue. If the installer even booted up, then it should install packages correctly, so your problem sounds more like a hardware issue than our issue.
That being said, if you're using a beta or release candidate of 11.1, then that's a whole other bag of possibilities. If so, try the final release on Thursday.
-Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy, openSUSE Member (and guy who wrote that Sneak Peek) - DefiniteFail, on 12/14/2008, -4/+1The installer is one of the best I've ever seen in Linux Distros, now fix the Desktop.
- inactive, on 12/14/2008, -4/+0Yeah teh desktop zuks mah penis
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