Comments on: More openSUSE 10.3 Numbers

By: Leadsoup

Leadsoup — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:59:25 +0000

Been so very pleased with my retail OpenSuSE 10.3, I’m slowly leaving windows behind. Really tired of the Microcrap thing. I have tried many distro’s of Linux but none seem to be more friendly than OpenSuSE. Although Mandriva seemed to run nicely it had too many gliches so I would call it a close 2nd to OpenSuSE. My system updated perfectly and the control, configuring are great to say the least. Just wished I never wasted $10,000 dollars worth of education on Microcrap. The system I purchased came with an Intel celeron an windows vista basic (Acer Aspire 3680 Laptop) runs great with the OpenSuSE 10.3, blew away the partition installed OpenSuSE an been nothing but fun and pure enjoyment learning Linux. Just my opinion thx…

By: SuSE Freak

SuSE Freak — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:22:15 +0000

I have very easily been able to install OpenSuSE 10.3 in Parallels on a Macbook (Intel) 2nd generation. I had no issues and used the Parallels 3.0 SuSE preconfig built into the program. Again, no problems here. It is quite beautiful. Way to go SuSE!!!!

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:17:11 +0000

I am not able to intall 10.3 via Parallels either. Here I am ready to give SUSE another shot after years of Ubuntu use, and I can’t get it to install…. Maybe it’s a sign?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:44:11 +0000

So has anyone been able to install 10.3 through Parallels? I’ve tried booting the install directly from ISO and DVD, but keep hitting the “Could not find the openSUSE Repository” message.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:50:48 +0000

I totally agree. I switched last year from windows to fedora to ubuntu then onto openSuse 10.2 . This distro openSuse 10.3 was a breeze to setup compared any of them. Ubuntu community is not so professional as per say OpenSuse community.Cograts on your numbers OpenSuse they are well deserved for a rich featured OS.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:27:35 +0000

Thanks a lot for all your great work on openSUSE 10.3! It’s a great distribution, which just works out of the box. I tried Ubuntu but I had a Windows XP and Mac OS X background, so I was used to intuitive an easy user interface. I got my troubles with the GNOME environment when I tried to mount my Windows C: drive. And there it kicked off: the Linux “hacker” cliché; I ended up in a file called “fstab”, editing it, rebooting and then having my Windows C: drive on my desktop. A little complicated for my taste. So I switched to openSUSE 10.2 and KDE and my problems were gone: no editing config-files, a central tool for administration (YaST), and a easy-to-use desktop environment with all the tools I needed: OpenOffice.org, GIMP, amaroK etc.

Now I have my new Mac Book Pro (generation 3: Intel Core 2 Duo, GeForce 8600M GT, 2048 RAM) and my wonderful triple boot Mac OS X, Windows XP SP2, and openSUSE 10.3 system with a super cool Leopard desktop, a super shiny openSUSE compiz Desktop and a super “useful” Windows gamer desktop.

Cheers, you rock!

By: Ken Krauss

Ken Krauss — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:29:03 +0000

I’m getting a “Cannot find OpenSuse repository” error as well trying to install 10.3 Gnome from CD on a Gateway M275 tablet pc. I’m typing this on the same pc just booted up with the 9.3 OpenSuse LiveCD though so I don’t know why there would be any network issues in the 10.3 install CD….. Guess I’ll try installing 9.3 and keep my fingers crossed…..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:15:50 +0000

Why are you sure that it’s not an issue with Parallels? People seem to have no problem installing openSUSE on real hard ware.

By: Duncan H.

Duncan H. — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:33:26 +0000

While many people are happy, this is a REALLY BROKEN release for people with ide drives.
I am a long-time SuSE user, with four OpenSuse 10.2 instalations.

The dvd install of 10.3 had great problems starting.
insmod=ide-generic
allowed the first part of the install to work, but on the reboot
it cannot find the swap partition /dev/hda1 to resume the install from.

The internet is littered with questions from people trying to solve this problem.
Related problems seem to have occured all throughout the developemnt phase, but have
not been properly fixed.

Shame on SuSE for putting out a distribution with a fundamentally broken installation
for a significant minority of users.

This will be a disaster when people buy the boxed set.

Its presumably some ide issue with the new pata drivers, but the fix is not obvious.

(installation hits this brick wall on a Macbook with Parallels 2.5_

By: Mike Barnes

Mike Barnes — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:06:22 +0000

I have been pretty happy with the install. A couple of issues though. I have 2 usb devices which appear to not be recognized

1- WD Passport
2 – multi card reader

both of these are very important to my wife (whom I am trying to convince that XP is not that great)

Also, it would be nice if when setting up the printer that suggested options are used. Especially since the information appears to be available from at install time. I will second the person who said that it would be nice if the installs were not as network centric since one of my systems is using a wireless connection.

Other than these