openSUSE 11.1 Review

[WarzBlade]

you cant download shit so dont get opensuse ever!!! id rather not have a laptop and ive seen pcs from 1970 with a better operating fkin system!

[x2deemable]

He spent so much money on the mic, he had to get everything else from Walmart. lol

[x2deemable]

OpenSUSU?

[3fty665]

I think the SUSE looks great! -but I think I'm going to switch to Debian (from Ubuntu)- So many good distros...hard to choose...and it's all FREeeeee....yee-haw!

[Joebandoe2]

Damn, it's probably

[JonStar92]

dont try to deepthroath that mic, u wont survive it :)

[whj28ahg]

How can you say that this OS looks great? It's years behind modern OS when it comes to looks. It might be safe, offer freedom and all of that, but it's ugly. If you want the masses to switch to Linux then you gotta do something about the looks. Most people don't give a damn about nerdy issues, they just want to surf, send e-mails, chat, play music etc and they go for looks.

[blahinthe]

@whj28ahg i dont know about opensuse (and other distros) since i've only used ubuntu thus far, and yes, the default themes on these os' are pretty bad. (ubuntu's 10.04 default is pretty good, previously ubuntu's default was the worst). However, customizing the theme makes for so many different possibilities. Then there is other programs like cairo-dock, compiz, ect that are truly eye candy.

But yes, people who don't want to work a computer use windows or mac.

[luiscpmotta]

olha o microfone do gordo!!!

[GarebearShields]

WIth a mic that big, it doesn't have to be near your face, you keep going over 0 decibels - which is what makes that weird sound

[DirtyMidgetStudios]

I think you say the e.

"susie"

[felixduhcat89]

What's with that big mic?

[theunbubba]

Initially it came in a box which had the Su SE separated. Thus the pronunciation would be SuSee.

[TechnologicalUK]

WOAH!! u might as well eat your microphone!

[TobiasScholze]

suse, it is german ;) like Konrad Zuse.

But a lot of people say "opensuzy"...

[ratzhushk]

=)) :))

lol man

your microphone is so small :P

[wachnlearn]

unbutton your shirt some more

[Ov3rK1LL3000]

yeh but why the hell is the file 4gb something like that

[Max4142]

openSUSE is pronouced "oʊpənˈsuːzə" = open + "su" like "to SUe someone"  + z + the same "a" as in the article "a" (source is wikipedia)

[Robindahoodz]

@Max4142

thanks, thats the idea i had of the pronunciation except i didnt know the second "s" was pronounced as a "z"

[lindsaymobil22]

lol opensuse's gnome slab menu is copied off of mint's mint menu!

[misjahnner]

Haha, I opened this video just to see how it`s pronounced.

[shaneacc]

FAIL he says he pronounced openSuse wrong at 0:46

[LuigiKat11]

I use ubuntu now, but I love KDE so I want to switch

[TurocKValentin]

@LuigiKat11 then use kubuntu

[FubarAlAkbar]

People have been having these "tomato-toMAHtoe" debates ever since "LIHnuks-LIEnuks" was invented. I call it "Open Suzy". You can call it Open Butterball if you want. It's a matter of personal preference.

[cobrafazea]

i am using Mint right now ...and this video made me think of switching

[sobrownso]

Mic is cool

[dale456654]

Soosa?

[olig19052]

@dale456654 hahah

I always pesumed it was sooze

[alexx2300]

Can Anyone Help?.. I have an openSuse ISO image and it works fine with VMware. I then burnt the image to DVD and made sure its bootable, but it doesnt boot from the DVD when i try to install...

[Techlur]

did you just drag and drop the iso image? or did you use an iso burner. if so then just press f9 or something along those lines when your computer is booting up. the choose the disk.

[afie83]

check your BIOS bootup setting. make sure it's set to your cdrom 1st, then hdd 2nd. Or tutorial, "how to boot via cdrom" on google or youtube.

[milkimania]

i could be wrong, but i think its pronounced:

open-suzy, except without the "e" sound at the end. again, i could be wrong

[gloryworks]

Is your mic big enough?

[ADeadRock]

what mic?

[njhth]

@gloryworks not only that, but is it necessary...

[chamath1985]

@gloryworks Is he a radio host?

[mapouchi2807]

@gloryworks Yes but the sound quality is very good

[Rrichthe3]

big ass mic!

[XXsushifreak123YY]

how do you install stuff in the termina in opensuse?

[josephy]

那隻麥會不會太大隻拉!!

[RA71296105195]

Take the mic just a bit up and it replaces you head

completely

[yagerdew]

Is that a USB mic? ...

[flame142]

"SU-SE" I presume it's japanese.

But i'm not sure.

[Skooligan]

It's German and it stands for

System und Software Engwicklung which means

System and Software Development

[iatu]

some guy told me suse means "suck" in french

[jlogo10]

openSUSE 11.1 should detect all your hardware on startup. If it doesn't then look for a one-click install package to obtain any outstanding drivers. Try a Google search.

Wireless NICs are one area where Linux doesn't have great support. Try and find the manufacturer of your NIC and do a search in Yast2 for an appropriate driver.

[rjwarda]

I recently installed Open Suse 11.1, but I'm having problems get the nic-card to talk, I.e. I'm having issues connecting to the internet. Anyone outher having similar problems. What do I need to do to get it to work? Thanks

[hrbear]

A first clue is this: The slot immediately after the AGP or the PCI-E must lie empty. That's because there will be an IRQ sharing which cause problems. A second point is not to have 2 NICs in the PC or 1 NIC+an ISDN card or 1 NIC + a PCI modem. Also, if the mobo has it's own NIC and you added an other NIC in the PCI, then just cancel the mobo's NIC through the BIOS, so you will have only the PCI one. There could be problems on WinXP too, but not all the time.

[DjJPIDM]

great review. you have convinced me to download it... thank you for the information! :D

[hrbear]

Isn't it a wonderful Linux edition? The 11.1 surprised me a lot because it's much improved than the previous edition 10.0. Everything looks and works fine in my PC. I choosed the KDE 3, although it has KDE 4 also.

[TEXASxDR3W]

ahhhhhh ur diven me NUTTSS. jk good vid

[SimpleTutorials08]

I just installed opensuse 11.1 with kde 4.1

and I'm very happy with it :)

[GrassoIvan]

EEEH SOS RE PANCHOOOOO

[onurkinin]

haha

[hoppimike]

great little (p)review I like that :)

i am currently trying to weigh up whether to switch to Fedora or OpenSUSE, having used Linux for years and just switching back again from XP. Good KDE 4 support is key for me, as I am not the biggest Gnome fan!

Cheers for the opinion man! :)

[twitch6000]

I am using opensuse and I gotta say opensuse is ftw.

A little slow on somethings though.

[hoppimike]

at the moment I have to admit i'm veering towards Fedora... it's got a great rocket-fast boot-up and appears more progressive than OpenSUSE, but it's definitely a close one.

[Insanity0107]

Fedora should be more progressive then opensuse, seeing as fedora is a testing platform, it gets all the new stuff first.

[DigiTan000]

I hear the same thing. Plus it's a bit more secure according to distrowatch. ...Not to speak ill of openSUSE 11.1, which has great hardware support from where I stand. I know KDE 4.1 gets mixed reviews, but I found it 100% satisfactory.

[17Paperclips]

You mispronounced GNOME ;)

It's Gee-Nome.

[lolw00tmegahaxxor]

Ehhm.. no, you don´t

[MasonFeurtado]

No, GNOME announced the right way to say it it simply "nome".

[jersydvl]

actually no, when referring to the desktop environment its a hard G

[programacionviva]

are you Kevin James?

[russell56443]

I tried KDE at first but reinstalled and Gnome is Awesome!!!

I cant get Compiz to work though,I have all the right hardware but I guess Im screwing something up along the way :0(

I love Compiz on my Ubuntu system so I guess I'll wait until some one puts a 11.1 Gnome/Compiz walk through on Youtube(Hint,Hint)!!!

[FaithFullMemory]

Kde sucks no offence want a real operating system get one with gnome wont dissappoint GNOME FTW ( feel like cursing at me dont bother ill never come back to this video so you'll be wasting 20 secs of your life )

[asphixmx]

I am a gnome user, but I'm plannng to replace with KDE. KDE is getting better and better. Gnome needs and upgrade...while the gnome 3 arrives, I guess I will be a KDE user.

[ModusPonem]

Dr. Suse

[stebbzor1]

nice video

[chybaka]

they should change their name to OpenSyS!

[Dojan5]

That would be really weird.

Open SuSE means "Software und System-Entwicklung" which means "Software and System Development".

Changing it to SyS wouldn't make sense.

[dkgshiz357]

opensuse 11.1 sucks bad. I installed my ati driver. Restarted. And that crappy blackscreen poped up. Nothing you could do. I moved on to linux mint. Its my fav linux distro.

[3star2nr]

Ati is a real pain in the ass.

The drivers were conflicting with the kernel drivers thats what happened to you.

nVidia is so much easier to work with, because they support linux.

[Enerj3tik]

yeah, agreed! i got an ATI card, i love ati, but it blows wen it comes to linux support. too bad :(.

installed opensuse yesti on my laptop, works a charm, i love it!

[northwestbrett]

ubuntu power!!!

[jumbalayagman]

It's pronounced Zoo-zuh

[liamsp544]

Oh man I'm mixed up, is it pronounced open soo-saa or open soos

[schturmgewehr]

just say S U S E  ;)

Slack is the best

[2600htz]

I thought it was [sue]•[sae] :(

[fontorio]

when he said the high-end look, all I could think of is the following:

give me a terminal and i won't care anything else if everything works the way it should.

[PowerMacUser]

i fucking hate openSuSe menu =[

im too much of a fedora person.

[masterdanoz]

add the normal gnome menu by right clicking on the bar and choose add new... a list will come up and you can select the normal menu system and remove the current one.

[theoneandonlyhut]

SMALL MICRO :D:D:D:D:D

XDXDXDXDXDXD

[MistaMadDog]

Is that microphone really required, Seriously?

[STLFANSS]

Yeah man he couldn't find his big mic. 0_0

[eltonus1]

the audio quality is very good ... so

what do you want?

[mistersleeepy]

that mike is really nice...he should dip it in gold

[netgemiplayer]

I'm a big fan of OpenSUSE...pity theres no decent music software availble for it though

[LoloftheRings]

You say you don't like banshee? :O

[filippo333]

It's pronounced "Opensueza".

[metalfool4295]

wait! i take it back its 64 meg with a celron proccessor. does that change anything?

[metalfool4295]

its metalfool again, i have a really old computer (i think it has 32 mb ram) with windows 98, does anyone know a really simple, easy, distro to install? note: actually INSTALL!!!

[hichak]

use puppy linux or tiny core

[zeofromthefuture]

damn small linux

[metalfool4295]

ya the thing is though, the computer i am trying to use is an inspiron 5000e, and i think ubuntu is too powerfull..... but then again, so is openSUSE.....

[metalfool4295]

hello, i tried to make a live cd for openSUSE, but i think i messed up my computer. I have absolutely no computer skills and have never used linux, so if you could make a step by step instruction thing to help me do it that would be GREAT

[jotchob]

it 's better for you to use Ubuntu the instalation is easier than opensuse you have the ability to instal under windows and both work great the only thing is to select the os you want on your dual boot screen

[lopezsergio01]

just order a cd ubuntu is better go for it make an account on ubuntu . com and oder a free cd its way better than windows 98

[masterdanoz]

suse shits on ubuntu buddy, ubuntu is for nix nubs

[jonnyally]

lolz. nice mic

[Alloc22]

linux rulez! Windows sux!

[nepssis]

In serbian language it is "read as it is written", so we do not have problems with pronunciation, so last voice in susE is E as in End. ;)

[lordwalden]

Yeah its the same in Hungary:P

[yungceezy10]

susa, i thought it was suse, potatoes patatoes

[xKCBEx]

I call it Sue-See, but whatever. I liked 8.1 when I ran that, but I cannot get 11.1 to install it can't seem to find or access my hard drives so it tries to install to the CD/DVD for some reason, and then it says "can't find repositories" and dies.

[xKCBEx]

update, it's apparently just KDE that has problems for me, Gnome worked just fine.

[hrbear]

Very nice presentation. Bravo.

[BR177]

Why would you want that big annoying microphone in front of you... annoying

[distortionmaster]

it covers the testicle growing on his right cheek

[dangerriff]

I have gentoo linux from about 4 years, for a desktop, without reinstalling. Now i want to test this nice piece of soft :)

[ninbri64]

he's actually right. its not "sooz" but the official pronunciation is open 'Su-Za'. Also, he was pronouncing the gnome linux desktop wrong, its officially pronounced with a hard G, "ga-nome" not like proper english "nome"

[patriot1369]

ok i now installed osuse 11.1 and its cool kde4.1 is better and not as buggy like 4.0 but its still not finisht , its still crashes , to me it has once , wifi worked for me out of box ( atheros wifi chip ) ,yast also works ok and all software packages installs over the inet without problems , not like in osuse 10 where i could not install halfe of my drivers ... open suse 11.1 is a good os .... only kde4 needs more fixes

[patriot1369]

great review

[batemanjo9]

according to Novell videos I have seen, its like saying sue (like you are being sued) and an S sound at the end "sue-ssss" or like in mythology, the Greek god of thunder Zuse but with an S

[DigiTan000]

Or "Dr. Seuss?"

[batemanjo9]

exactly! Why didn't I think of that. lol

[Lyecdevf]

I have been using Suse now for over a year and I do have to agree that the it has a very elegant look. I always loved the slab menu but now I use icewm so...any way great video!

[nickbolton2705]

thanks for review... im moving away from ubuntu (which i hate now because of it's lousey hardware support)... almost finished downloading opensuse so i'm really looking forward to the polished graphics - just hope the hardware support is as good as the os looks!!!

[davesmithhayesdotcom]

I think KDE should always get less attention payed to it than GNOME.

Also, I thought it was Gee-Nome.

[lxfguits]

Kinda like this should sound about right.

S ---- like you normally do

U ---- like o in Eng "to" not like "you"

E ---- like e in Eng "enter"

Like the name "Suzy" with "y" replaced by a short "e" as it sounds the word "enter".

[nickbolton2705]

Wikipedia says its its ponounced soo-za.

[Xaeron187]

At OpenSUSE's own website, in some videos, they say something like "Sue-Ze" or "Sue-Sei". Pronounce it however the hell you like :p I say it like Open Zeus.

[AcheLone]

among linux distros, i love opensuse the most. currently using 11.0. i don't know i could just upgrade it to 11.1 without to much hassle, could i?.

[crimson90]

It's pronounced ZOO-suh. Es ist Deutsch.

[aramsey2000]

Is it possible to find a bigger microphone to put in front of your head? ;-)

[rmellis]

i was just thinking that lol :)

[batemanjo9]

HAHA! Yea I was thinking the same thing. When I was watching him talk, I wasn't even paying any attention to what he was saying, I was just looking at that big ass mic

[mcowain]

Sooos sounds better

[Blix11]

I downloaded it but my secondary har drive has stayed with Ubuntu 8.04 because it's been stable and good. I'm an OpenSuse fan but the only problem I had was that the dvd codex didn't when I installed it through yast. There was a website that had another way of installing it that I always used but it was sold and they no longer have that guide. I had to pretty much build my pc from ground up and only had one drive in it so I could not use Linux for some time and forgot how to do it. =/

[batemanjo9]

dvd codex: there is something weird about openSuse and copyright laws, they are not allowed to provide dvd decoders and mp3 codecs out of the box and all that junk, you need to add the "packman" repository and update the xine package and all plugins associated with it. then everything will work

[Blix11]

I got the MP3, WMA and everything working on Suse.... except the DVDs. I just prefer DVD CSS over the other alternative they offered. That one... simply worked!

[LoloftheRings]

where can I buy the fingerprint thing? I WANT IT!! :D

[shg327]

I've always pronounced it one syllable, "soose", but I think I remember ready a magazine article that said the name actually was Su SE or Su Second Edition. So they would call it Su (Es EE).

[octalillusion]

yeah, good review! :)

[skooter1973]

A good review of openSUSE, I'll be sure to check back for more vids from yourselves.

[jdhf983y4uhu]

is the gnome version all GTK and no Qt now? i've got 10.2 on one box and support has ended now, i can't decide what to put on it.

[OtakuBozu]

I believe your pronunciation of SuSE is in the right ball park, on the wrong base. the S (both of them) is pronounced as a Z since it's a German acronym.

[GrimSlayer86]

I think it's pronounced Soo-Zuh...

But I'm not sure!

[dsfgdsfg324]

the music volume somewhat higher than the volume when you're speaking.

but nice vid, I'm considering using openSUSE.

[YouMockMe]

I recently downloaded OpenSUSE 3 days ago, not knowing of its release, just wanting an alternative to Ubuntu. It's great. This distro my become the one i settle down with and make a family of programs on... but I am having an issue, maybe you can help. The WIFI is acting oddly. It works when I put in the LiveCD and first start, but every start up thereafter, WIFI doesn't work. I can see everything but no connections work. Thinking it was an update issue I reinstalled twice. Same deal. Help?

[iMacXperience]

I like OpenSuSe 11.1 KDE a lot, though the desktop animations are very choppy on my computer and there's no GUI way to set the right resolution (on my monitor at least). May be because it's no official release yet. Other than that it's perhaps the best desktop linux distribution right now since pretty much everything works right out of the box..

[jimjimovich]

Any possibility to get less obtrusive microphone?

[KevinDupuy]

BTW, Chris: you can still buy the boxed edition. I believe the plan is to have pre-orders up at Novell's store within the next few days.

[derhundchen]

I believe openSUSE 11.1 will be a great release. However I intend to wait for KDE 4.2.0 to be ready before installing it (hopefully stephan binner will release a remastered version of oS 11.1 with it)

[CheezeyWeezey]

Cool. To me, openSuSE seems the most polished out of the big distros out there. The desktop experience seems fantastic (I gotta try this once i get an x86 computer... Linux doesn't like my iMac G5).

[jernejovc]

I loved this preview, although I'm a bit dissapointed that not more of KDE 4 was presented. As far as I see a lot more interesting developments are happenng in KDE 4 than in any other desktop at this moment. So it would be cool to see a review of these features. Maybe you plan a special review when KDE 4.2 comes out? Or maybe a pre-view of the current beta?

[habtool]

Nice pre-view ;)

[notanavrageloser]

KDE4.1 is solid in this release. Light years ahead of Kubuntu. EXCEPT the NetworkManager applet. Good lord, that is trash.

Also, for what it's worth, the fingerprint reader in my ThinkPad has been supported by openSUSE out of the box since 10.3. Just figured I'd throw that out there.

[jupiterbroadcasting]

Ya, I thought that might be the case... They listed it as a new feature, but I suspected.

[notanavrageloser]

Oops. Went back and rewatched this video, then I remembered something: OpenSUSE has supported fingerprint readers since at least 10.3, but with that release (and 11.0), it would only "just work" in tty1-tty6. It could be made to work with GDM, KDM, or what have you, but it took some patching and command-line hackery.

So, realizing this, good job, OpenSUSE devs!