Comments on: openSUSE 12.1 Reveiew by Terence Lam

By: oscar

oscar — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:21:28 +0000

Try checksum to verify the integrity of the CD/DVD.

The openSUSE homepage show you how to do it, is a little tricky.

Because sometimes the installation may be corrupted..

I hope this help you

By: scn

scn — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:42:59 +0000

I tried to install 12.1 gnomw from the linux pro magazine disc without success.
The installation concludes without installing gnome.
Does anybody know if the disc has any problems or why it is behaving in a faulty manner.

any help would be appreciated,

thanks

By: funlw65

funlw65 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:41:45 +0000

Personally, I like very much Gnome3 (is what Unity had to be). Is very well prepared for the devices equipped with touch screens (try to run a classic Gnome interface with such a device – nightmare). But is good enough also for desktop (where you can place icons if you want the classic way of having shortcuts to your favorite application).

I don’t see any problem in switching from an application to another by just moving fast the mouse pointer in the upper-left corner of the screen or pressing the Windows start button from the keyboard (this, regarding to multitasking).

Well, there is definitely space for improvements. When I’m switching to “Applications” tab for the first time, the responsiveness is somewhat slowed down as the computer needs time to generate the list for all existing applications:

In the right sidebar you can find the categories for “All, Accessories, Games, Graphics, etc.” and the default is “All” – the biggest list from all lists possible. I would like (when I press “Applications” tab) to have displayed only the right sidebar without any selection – the displayed category will be my choice and responsiveness will not suffer (unless I chose to). Is the only thing which bothers me right now, but not too much.

Vasi

By: Ambassador Roger

Ambassador Roger — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:56:10 +0000

Clearly problems with English not being the first language. Do have to agree on the attempt to be politically correct in regards to Gnome3. Gnome3 sucks, just say it… we all know it. Section on systemd was the most interesting to me since I have yet to find documentation that clearly explains any obvious advantage beyond aggressive parallelization.

By: Kim Leyendecker

Kim Leyendecker — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:40:16 +0000

I really like this article, will share it on twitter and g+

By: Babe

Babe — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:14:06 +0000

After writing about the problems with GNOME and saying nothing very good about it, the author then says “In all, I feel that Gnome’s simple interface coupled up with gnome extensions is really awesome and even advanced users would like it.”

This sounds more like a politically paid advertisement than a conclusion drawn from the described experience. I don’t believe it.

By: James McDaniel

James McDaniel — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:29:26 +0000

For anyone into bash script and using openSUSE 12.1, here are some links into the openSUSE forum blogs you are going to want to see.

Thank You,