Comments on: GNOME on openSUSE 11.4

By: Konrad Beringer

Konrad Beringer — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:26:49 +0000

The version 11.4 is running in different points much better than the previous one.

1. I’m missing “system recovering point” as installed in MS systems, With this tool would be for normal user testing of modifications much easier.

2. Audacity is not running in 64 bit version, why??

By: Chameleoned

Chameleoned — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:58:04 +0000

VirtualBox and VMware Player are indeed helpful. I have OpenSolaris 2009.06 in an Oracle’s virtual machine and PC-BSD 8.2 amd64 in VMware’s Player. I have them in a desktop archiving machine (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400) with limited network resources, but in my daily working laptop (AMD Turion TL50 64 X2) I have openSUSE 11.4 64 since RC1 dual-booting with Vista 32. Although virtual machines are great to test-drive nothing beats actual hardware interaction, so the only linux distro I always install to the HDD is openSUSE’s. While KDE accomplishes things, GNOME adjusts to about any whim I happen to have and that is mighty fine.

By: James Mason

James Mason — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:48:05 +0000

With 3D acceleration working in VirtualBox, you can try any of the desktops out, virtually, and still get a good feel for it.

By: Ricardo Chung

Ricardo Chung — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:35:53 +0000

Options are. So why feeling in conflict or remorse ? You can have it all ! Test it ! Use it ! Enjoy it ! Try one Desktop in one computer and the other Desktop in another one. Do not limit yourself. openSUSE gives you the choice and opportunity to free your desktop anytime you want. ;-)

By: Chamaleoned

Chamaleoned — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:40:15 +0000

Same here. I even have regrets and remorse each time I switch to a new release of KDE — I keep thinking over and over while installing it: “GNOME works, I like it, why am I doing this…?”

By: trock

trock — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:55:03 +0000

I keep trying KDE and always end up going back to GNOME. GNOME seems to be more pragmatic and functional while KDE emphasizes great style and glitz. GNOME still seems more stable.

By: Bryen Yunashko

Bryen Yunashko — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:58:23 +0000

@Daos,

No. The default is still KDE. Nothing’s changed on that front. But you’re missing a bit of the significance here. openSUSE actually ships with multiple desktops right out of the box. KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE. All of them very well polished and ready to use. People don’t have to choose openSUSE for its desktop, but rather for its underlying operating system strength and then pick what they want to use as an interface. This is a unique advantage we offer over other distros. While other distros may offer multiple desktops, they’re often shipped as a secondary project with its own media.

It’s all about choice, and while I’m a GNOME user myself, I’m sure you’ll continue to love our KDE offering. See you on Thursday at a download near you!

By: Daos

Daos — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:28:11 +0000

Is this means openSUSE 11.4 will have GNOME as its default DE?
It is a pity if so. I like GNOME but prefer KDE and IMO openSUSE used to be best KDE-distro on my expirience. There is too many well made GNOME-disrto too choose from. But if even openSUSE choose GNOME as its dafault (and I suppose most polished) DE there is nothing left to choose really well made KDE-distro.
Anyway I will give 11.4 (GNOME) release a try because I disappointed with 11.3. With 11.2 it was better experience.

By: Chameleoned

Chameleoned — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:31:08 +0000

I know what I would definitely buy: a 13″ Skiff Reader-like tablet featuring opensuse gnome flavoured touch-edition distro with stylus.

By: Chameleoned

Chameleoned — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:12:51 +0000

Long live opensuse and the gnome project. Glad to witness the quality of opensource surpassing branded code. Much obliged.