openSUSE 11.2 - James Bond's choice

[Mrkvonic]

Hi all,

openSUSE time!

Enjoy a long, enthusiastic review of openSUSE 11.2 running KDE desktop, covering many topics and features, like live CD experience, installation, post-install tips and tricks, Wireless, Bluetooth, applications, KDE4 & looks, proxy support, Samba sharing, printing, multimedia support - Flash, MP3, Windows video, performance, stability, laptop modes - suspend & hibernate, YaST, package management, extra repositories, one-click installs, virtualization, and more.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/opensuse-11sp2.html


Cheers,
Mrk

[wilbertnl]

Thank you so much for this review, Mrk.

OpenSUSE and Mandriva both offer network management in their YaST/System Control Center, with the advantage of being able to connect when Xorg isn't running. *ubuntu used to rely on /etc/network/interfaces, but since 9.4 that seems to result in conflicts with the desktop network managers.

On one laptop I find Kubuntu's network driver ath9k less reliable than OpenSUSE/Mandriva/Fedora.
On my desktops Mandriva installs the madwifi driver as opposed to ath5k, which results in a noticeable improvement.
And then we have the issue of font rendering quality... Each distro has their pro's and cons...

[Kerodo]

Thanks for the great review Mrk. I think I am going to add this one to my list of things to install this weekend.. :)

[Judge Dee]

Well, I will admit that I have yet to play with my SUSE partition, sticking with Ubuntu. But that's now going to change. Thanks for the review.
BTW, Mrk, your reviews and tutorials make reading stuff a pleasure.

[Mrkvonic]

Thanks all guys ... Writing is great fun, by the way :)
Mrk

[wilbertnl]

Networking out of the box tests, same system, same test target:

OpenSUSE 11.2/KDE:

213799

Mandriva 2010.0 Free/KDE:

213800

[Kerodo]

Seems ok here. Perhaps a bit slower than usual, but that could just be time of day. Nothing dramatic...

Last Result:
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