I guess I missed the point in my previous post. For me it doesn’t matter how it looks like (in respect of comparison different versions of KDE). I mean – SuSE is not “GUCCI” of operational systems it’s Mercedes! I’d rather suggest my own version of their brand Stability und Stability (feel free to add whatever you like for E!) It DOES all the jobs it has to do! (At least for me).

And what is important – you do not need to be a rocket scientist to make it work!

Have FUN!

Thank you for your efforts. Your work deserves the highest respect.
I cannot say that I participated (did not have capacity to contribute), I was present at some Linux development seminars organized at the IBM Building at Manhattan and it was something that inspired me. I tried (mainly played, like with some toys) many of the different distributions. It was (and still is) FUN!
Sometime 5-6 years ago I managed to download and to install I think Mandriva it was and during installation I checked off all the boxes (servers including!!!!) on my Dell 400 MHz laptop.
I was surprised when our IT chief popped up in my office couple of hours later and informed that we’re in a neck dip “situation” – the network got mad and he cannot find the reason. I quietly unplugged the network cable from my laptop, produced to the colleague a bottle of cold bear and tried to calm down him. The network slowly returned to normal state, but since then I have highest respect for Linux and NEVER touch the network and network related setting without IT staff.
SuSE returned to my Official desktop (not supported by the organization, but quietly assisted by some of the IT brat) at 10.0 level in double boot configuration on a single 80GB HDD – not much, you may say, but at this level we met the critical virus attack that rendered all our Windows computers unusable for quite a while. SuSE saved me big time then. It lacked video playback (I’m not too much in making it tuned. At least I wasn’t at the time), but MP3 playback from external HDD worked, access to the mail server rocked and read-only access to all My Document folder was more than enough to continue working. Another Chief of IT came to disturb me to “back up” my docs from infected computer. He was surprised to learn that the work is going on and as a cherry on a pie I even managed to show him location of the virus-infested files, including those located to at the “superhidden” directory. IT Chief was pleased to know that our back up mail server was powered by some of the Linux version. The guy who was responsible for it, did what he knew best to work for it and installed Linux. Since then I’m always in Linux company. At home I run SuSE 10.2. One of my son has 10.3, another 11.0 (KDE 3). For friends I install Ubuntu (GUCCI as they say of the distributions).
What I like in SuSE – ability to address the problem at several levels (terminal – I’ll try to avoid it, simple graphic interface when you have to start YAST with simple graphics, and finally normal or full graphics mode). At home I have SuSE 10.2 and see no point of upgrade – all I need works there! Why the hell to kill a day for movement of all the stuff to a new installation? See no point now.
Expect at some point of Linux development to see the distribution that can be comfortably loaded over the previous installation. Can it be achieved by reformatting only specific mounts/partitions.
Also expect to be able to install SuSE 11.1 to my new Asus EeePC 1000H. I hope the set of drivers can be included in the official release.
Respect open and constructive atmosphere of the OpenSuSE developers. Best of Luck and Inspiration to ALL of you!

The good thing about GNOME is that you can force a quit even when running compiz in the event of an app freeze unlike KDE.I wish KDE fixes this or maybe someone could tell me how to to do it in KDE. The openSUSE made it clear that KDE 4.0 that ships with 11.0 was not fully ready. I took that to mean that I should only use it as a preview understanding that it was crippled. Not a SUSE fault. I encourage you to re-install using GNOME as your choice. When you are selecting your software select the KDE 3.5 base and desktop options. This way you can play with both desktops. Try upgrading to open office 3.0.there are some improvements and it loads much faster than the earlier version. Be sure to load on all of your repositories eg Mozilla, Openoffice, VideoLAN, (cannot remember which display card you have, but if you have an ATI or geforce add the relevant repository), the OSS and NON -OSS should be already on.

Go here http://opensuse-community.org/1-click-collection to get your multimedia codecs for GNOME

Thanks for any kind of suggestions (probably I should have gone to FAQ first :D)

Opensuse11 is an excellent distro.

The mini iso’s can be found at http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/