[Linux4christians] openSUSE 11.2

Mike McMullin mwmcmlln at mnsi.net
Wed Nov 11 23:34:48 EST 2009


On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 23:54 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> 11.2 releases tomorrow. I've been running RC2 for a few days with KDE.
> I had been putting Ubuntu 9.10 through it's paces for about a
> week.....some things I liked, some I didn't. As much as I don't like
> the relationship between Novell and MickySoft, and IF there was
> another distro. as complete and as well produced as openSUSE, I'd use
> it. 
> 
> 11.2 on 2 test boxen, one a Dell laptop with Intel duel-core Centrino
> and 2G RAM and an HP desktop with a dual-core Opteron and 4G of RAM,
> are FASTER running with openSUSE 11.2 and KDE than Ubuntu 9.10. This I
> consider an important feat. Yast has even more ability than in 11.1.
> Anyone who's used Yast is hard pressed to want to leave it. ;)
> 
> I have an idea that 11.2 will be the distro. all others are measured
> by.

  Until Novell fixes the sound/lirc/mythtv issues that openSuSE suffers
from, Ubuntu will the DT distro of choice, and oS, the also ran.



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