Comments on: openSUSE 12.2: Green Means Go!

By: Dipankar Paul

Dipankar Paul — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:37:24 +0000

how i can get the DVD of OpenSuse 12.2

By: Chika

Chika — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:06:19 +0000

Update – Remember how I said that I was close to slapping my 11.4 drive back in? Guess what? As of about half-an-hour ago, I slapped it in. I got so fed up with the various bits of 12.2 that either didn’t work or worked only under protest.

I’ve learned my lesson. Never put a new release on your system until you are happy with it, whatever the distro bods say. That’s what Virtual Box is for.

By: Sumit Sharma

Sumit Sharma — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:17:39 +0000

best release of OpenSuse.awesome perfect for my laptop. Very good work my world

By: Philippe

Philippe — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:35:30 +0000

12.2 is great, well done team! I’m on Opensuse since 8.1 and it is getting better with each release!

I just did (for the first time) an in place upgrade with zypper on my laptop from 12.1 to 12.2 and everything worked fine. The first couple of hours after the upgrade everything was VERY slow, but then after a couple of hours performance was back to normal.

By: Jose Luis

Jose Luis — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:47:37 +0000

OpenSuse 12.2 running on my personal computer successfully. It looks great!

I feel an appreciably improved system performance with respect with that of OpenSuse 12.1.

I had two mishaps:

1. The first restart after installation fails. It works without any more problems after switching off and on the computer. (Grub2)

2. A repetitive system message appears every time I logged in, warning about “removed Sound devices”. I fixed it with the “Sound Configuration” dialog within Yast2, simply disabling that sound devices I don’t need. It looks like I have three devices in my computer. When sound works fine I finally checked “Do not ask again for these devices”. (I have a snapshot).

My computer:
System: PC MEDION AKOYA P8304 D
Processor: AMD PHENOM II X6 1055T, 6-core processor
Main Memory: 12288 MB DDR3-SDRAM
Graphic card: nvidia Geforce GTX 550 Ti, 1GB GDDR5

Thank you very much for this GREAT Linux distribution!!
Best wishes.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:42:23 +0000

An insistent urging to perform a security version update to Firefox running under OpenSuse 11.2 and KDE4 on an Asus Z96F x86_64 laptop resulted in Firefox (and also Konqueror browser) becoming unstable and repeatedly crashing. This in turn obliged an update of Opensuse itself to 12.2 since 11.2 is itself no longer supported by updates. The online SDB upgrade was followed to the letter, but nonetheless failed partway through, requiring a DVD .ISO image disc instead to be run. That completed without stalling, reporting only as the installation files ripped in that
a) some media definitions apparently relating to kmplayer were ‘unregistered (e.g. all/all, all/allfiles, uri/mms, uri/mnst, uri/mnsu, uri/pnm, uri/rtspu)
b) some problem with fonts/package and interface/x-winamp-skin
c)icedtea (Firefox) plugin – not exist
d) no grub partition (as existing prior to upgrade)

On completion and intended reboot to the updated system, no errors are shown as each module loads but then stalls at the juncture where the login screen should be displayed with the last item shown loaded [OK] being Clam AntiVirus daemon after auditd, CPUfreq, Console Manager, smpppd, kdm, X Display manager, Network Manager, LSB/HAL daemon have all loaded and irq_balancer shuts down.
Rebooting and selecting Safe/command mode stalls at the same juncture.

I note that the user area was quite tight on space (having only some 300Mb free) but this should not be any part of the cause, since the update would have checked on free space needs and prevented the update being initiated if significant.

How can the login screen be recovered/initiated to complete loading the system?

By: Alex Smith

Alex Smith — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:36:27 +0000

Agree with what Eric.P is saying: “This release is awful! I’ve NEVER experience such an unpolished Linux distribution I’ve used in my nearly-fifteen years using Linux!”

It doesn’t work without crashing on my two absolutely different computers.
At the same time SuSE 12.1 is working without an issue on a system where 12.2 crashes every couple of hours.

And I have some additional problems to add:
1) kernel crashes 2-3 times per day with different symptoms (reported 2 bugs to kernel team already).
2) KDE plasma desktop crashes periodically when a screen goes into power save mode.
3) Cannot get rid-off Network manager being started even I’m using ifup scheme. Why do I need to check that the only error on start is a Network Manager?
4) On dual-harddrive system updating a bootloader with Yast2 leads to non-bootable system. You need manyally reinstall Grub and recreate configuration files to be able to boot again.

As a bottom line. Make sure you’re installing this release on a sandbox first to make sure it is working for you. I know couple of peoples not complaining about this release.

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 11:56:59 +0000

Today’s update (Oct. 7) broke my system. I had to reinstall 12.2 again today. It took more than
1 hour, since I also had to reinstalled TeX Live 2012 from the internet.
Is there anyone having this same experience in updating the system? Nevertheless, I love 12.2 because it is smart.

By: Annoyed

Annoyed — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:59:09 +0000

Generally pretty good but what happened to the shell extensions? They used to be found in the “advanced Setting” but thier gone. They aren’t ready? Then this should not have been released! I hate it when geeks say stuff is ready for release but major and minor stuff isn’t there, doesn’t work or is replaced with something that no one can find!!!

Why change or remove things that work just fine? For professionals it’s always a good idea to not fix something that isn’t broke. It’s the constant changes that will keep linux from being adopted by none geeks.It’s also the reason that they only people that will use it are geeks.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:22:49 +0000

12.2 was the worst Release for me so far: Time resets itself to UTC every reboot/boot, need Admin Password to disable Wifi and (and that one is the worst one) I need to Type in my root Password to Shutdown! There is Literally a little Window that asks me to type in my Password to Shutdown (after the KDE Session ended).
And my Keyboard Layout resets itself too every Boot/Reboot.

I’m with Suse since 7.0. But 12.2 gave mo the will to try something else :)