Comments on: openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 51

By: ildar

ildar — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:07:48 +0000

I agree that 11.1 is a very good release. Thank you so much.

Only one problem so far: like many others I have to deinstall “beagle” to make the system stable against lockups in graphical mode.

Beagle comes installed in default setup. With beagle running my laptop (T60p) with kde4 eventually will stop responding. Only ticking of the clock on the screen
gives a hint that system is still alive. Otherwise it is complete dead: no response to mouse, any (well many tried) keyboard keys combinations.
Only power button held for several seconds is able to kill it.

Uninstalled beagle and got a most stable system in years. Good work.

Now, may I suggest that system installed by default comes with beagle not installed.
That way you will add many more potential users to the list of happy users, instead of turning them away at their first earnest attempt of openSuSE.

Even if stable, indexing of the file system in my opinion should be kept as optional. There are too many side effects, which every one will notice even if he does not notice any benefit of the index. For example, it is quite annoying to find out that your “home” directory is all taken by the index, which beagle created. As I said, indexing should come as an add on option after explaining to the user all the side effects. So, that if I do want an index created I would at least set aside appropriate disk space.

Thanks again for a good work.

By: Jorg

Jorg — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:09:09 +0000

I moved to SUSE 11.1 from 10.2 because of the end of support as announced end of 2008. But I regret it a LOT ! 10.2 worked great right from installation, never had a problem with any device and was very stable. Now with 11.1 I have problem with all devices:
- the network manager always dies at startup and must be re-restarted from YAST manually – why?
- the sound does not work.
- it is not possible to load a data dvd/cd – dolphin and konqueror crash.
- bluetooth does not work.
…
Sad !

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:56:25 +0000

If you find that you cannot watch a DVD in Kaffeine without it jumping and stuttering, remove all references to pulse audio – i removed *pulse* via Yast. I can view DVD’s as i could in 11.0 and also i now have sound in Amarok2. I think the QA in 11.1 is a bit short of the mark to make it a good release but i’ll stick with it and it should get better

By: rushman

rushman — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:04:40 +0000

Hi to all, and a Happy new Year.

Wifi and netbooks,
having bought an samsung NC10 for the wife for Christmas I thought great
Peace and quite. However getting the wifi to work was something else.
I tried all the useul things but in the end downloaded every live CD I could.
Only one worked out of the Box so to speak.

The cd’s were.
Ubunto 8.04
Ubunto 8.10
Suse 11.0
Suse 11.1
puppy 4.1.2
Gos 3
Fedora 9
Mandriver

Much to My surprise The working OS was Suse 11.1.
Everything works that I have so far tried. It just leaves me to find a driver
for the cam.

I hope this was of use to someone
regards rushman

By: anon

anon — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:48:19 +0000

microsoft sold, in the first few months, 40,000 Suse Enterprise certificates, ya that is really trying to destroy it huh.

Actually microsoft getting involved with novell has made more companies look at linux because the leading software maker is now supporting it through novell.

before you troll, learn the subject.

By: Lucky the Leprechaun

Lucky the Leprechaun — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:17:37 +0000

I have a linkys USB wireless adapter that, on previous versions, always required some tweaking to work. On 11.1 I was pleasantly surprised that it worked running both the gnome live CD and after the install with no effort on my part. This is an excellent version. OpenSUSE keeps getting better. Remember all you Microsoft paranoidists, the largest numbers of new users are coming from windows. I actually appreciate Novell trying to make their products work better with windows as that is the reality of most of the world (for now, at least).

By: freedguy

freedguy — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:54:30 +0000

1. openSUSE is nothing to do with Microsoft.

2. If you’re more happy with Fedora go for it, nobody is stopping you.

3. Stop trolling.

By: AlbertoP

AlbertoP — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:52:52 +0000

Maybe you can give constructive information about your problem on IRC or on bugzilla. Fedora provides exactly the same drivers openSUSE does, and a very similar software selection.

P.S. Write using proper capitalization, you are shouting!

By: Chrysantine

Chrysantine — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:48:34 +0000

I see the trolls don’t even take christmas breaks.

On that note, merry installation xmas

By: Sajeev Zacharias

Sajeev Zacharias — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:22:53 +0000

MY ADVICE TO LINUX USERS. IT WILL BE BETTER AVOID USING OPEN SUSE. NOW MICROSOFT HAS SWALLOWED THE COMPANY IN THE AIM OF DESTROYING SUSE. IF YOU INSTALL SUSE, THERE WILL BE AT LEAST ONE PROBLEM. MY PROBLEM WAS THERE IS NO DRIVER FOR WIRELESS LAN. AS A RESULT I WAS NOT ABLE TO ACCESS INTERNET. IT WILL BE BETTER YOU USE FEDORA VERSION 10. IT IS VERY NICE AND SOFTWARE UPDATE IS AMAZING. SO PLEASE USE FEDORA 10. A LOT OF GAMES AND A LOT OF STUFF ARE THERE.