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Comment on openSUSE 11.2 Released! by R.S. Tse

R.S. Tse — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:35:42 +0000

I have not succeeded in making openSUSE 11.2 to print on the Brother MFC7440N printer at 192.168.2.12:9100 which I have been using with open SUSE 11.0.

Printer installation was smooth, and pinging was fine, but when a test page was sent out — to nowhere. The MFC7440N.ppd is the same. However, if I use a wrong .ppd, the printer would respond, by printing a large number of blanks.

I have noticed that openSUSE uses CUPS 1.3.x. Ubuntu 9.10 uses CUPS 1.4.x, and it prints fine. I wonder if this makes a difference; in any case, openSUSE 11.0 which cannot be using a later CUPS version, printing is fine.

Comment on openSUSE 11.2 Released! by Alan Gruskoff

Alan Gruskoff — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:11:46 +0000

Release 11.2 really is the best Linux ever on my systems. Very nice look & feel. Dolphin is much improved. And so many excellent Packages included. Having PostgreSQL 8.4.1 in the Distro was nice. Still a manual process to load my Nvidia driver, but once done its gets 1920×1080.

Keep up the good work.

Comment on openSUSE 11.2 Released! by Bent

Bent — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:00:38 +0000

I was waiting for this distribution. Downloaded the same day.

However, my conclusion is, after testing it, after 10 years with S.u.S.E, Suse, OpenSuse, … – that it is time to move on.
I have enjoyed Suse a lot, used it every day. on many pc’s – in virtual machines, but I am tired of the problems with the installation and the upgrades that never work.

I wish all that work with it, good luck and thanks for your effort over the years.

Comment on openSUSE 11.2 Released! by jbarkley

jbarkley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:58:43 +0000

Only complaint: Still no place to enter a proxy for 1st boot automatic configuration which tries to reach out to the update site….

Comment on openSUSE 11.2 Released! by Alejandro Flores Prieto

Alejandro Flores Prieto — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:39:56 +0000

I read that the gpt mbr sync works with this version, but already tried to install several times on my macbook 2,1
On my Desktop Pc works great… congrats!

Comment on openSUSE 11.2 Released! by duke

duke — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:22:53 +0000

try to start application from command line, if there’s some error then it will show You.

Comment on openSUSE 11.2 Released! by Alfred

Alfred — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:50:27 +0000

Sorry man,if u still a fundie then linux isn’t good for but u can freely go back to MS windows since here we all dedicate our precious time to fix issues…Linux ain’t for faint hearted

Comment on Reminder: Second openSUSE Board Election Deadline Approaching! by DarkMac

DarkMac — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:04:34 +0000

I never liked the fact that this election is technical based only. There are several peoples out there that promote opensuse in schools, kindergartens, etc. This is what makes opensuse (in my opinion) the best linux distro ever. It is a shame that those people are not recognized at it should. Maybe next time you`ll consider adding them to a opensuse board election.

Comment on openSUSE 11.2 Released! by obiwan

obiwan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:39:53 +0000

Yes, of course I used the Packman and VLC repositories. The trouble with 11.2 is that so many
packages depend on (the useless) factory-shipped xinelib that deleting the latter truly breaks
the system (which wasn’t the case with 11.1).

So I disabled *all* standard repos, enabled just Packman, and tried to update all xine-related
stuff, only to find that some packages needed by the Packman xinelib could not be found.
So I had to start all over again (enable oss and non-oss repositories, install missing packages from them,
disable these repositories, enable only the Packman repo, update xine packages, enable oss and non-oss
repos again). Now, come on. If it takes me as an experienced SUSE user so much effort, what are
novices going to face if all they want is to play their mp3s or videos.

Thanks for the hint with KDE 4.3.3. I am going to give it a try. Why isn’t this version used by default?

PS: The Spam protection on this page still doesn’t work. Or is the sum of 1 + 9 something different from 10?

Comment on openSUSE 11.2 Released! by dhruv

dhruv — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:29:52 +0000

virtualbox not starting VM after upgraded to latest version

upgraded to kde 4.3.3. please post some tips regarding xen to handle nvidia driver!
great release opensuse 11.2!