openSUSE 11.4 Review - Linux Distro Reviews

A quick review openSUSE 11.4 running the RC 2. In Part 1, I take a quick look at the KDE and GNOME desktops, which both provide full featured performance, and stability. This release is not ground-breaking, but it's smooth, it's stable, and it's backed by one of the biggest commercial Linux offerings out there. One word comes to mind...professional.

Part 2 coming soon with the look into Xfce 4.8 and LXDE!

P.S. I am simply ashamed of the audio capture quality in this video. I believe ALSA is to blame. ;-)

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[PunkBusterSVK]

is ths distro good for notebook?? ..others distros like debian od BT works fine on it

[InfinitelyGalactic]

@PunkBusterSVK The power management is pretty good, but I've noticed openSUSE can sometimes guzzle RAM. Nothing huge, but if you have 1 GB or less, it might not be heaps snappy.

[SavageDutchman]

What are the differences between KDE and Gnome ?

[InfinitelyGalactic]

@SavageDutchman They are two different desktop environments with different goals. I suggest you have a look at their homepages to see what you think.

[joeyjobear]

Would you recommend OpenSuse for a thinkpad X61 tablet? If not, then which distro would you suggest?

[InfinitelyGalactic]

@joeyjobear I've heard good things about compatibility with openSUSE on the X61, so it should work just fine. Let me know how you go. Thanks for asking :-)

[sri4phy01]

For those who had multiple failures in installing Compiz in UBUNTU 11.10 might try OpenSUSE 12.1. One disadvantage is Open SUSE doesnt have as much as free online apps like UBUNTU does. But it has all the required driver and software packages within. For me it is really good, reliable, fast and user friendly. My notebook has 2nd Gen., Intel i7 2720Qm, HD graphics 3000, 4 Gb RAM.

[freeballs7]

@InfinitelyGalactic thank you!

[kshep92]

I have an Acer Aspire One 772. I've tried installing Ubuntu on it and spent an entire week finding drivers and fixing bugs. Can I expect the same scenario with openSuse?

[22ness0hayden]

As a mainly Gentoo and Arch user I still have a soft spot for OpenSUSE. I used it for many years with KDE 3.5

[SavageDutchman]

@InfinitelyGalactic oke because i'm relatively new to linux and have only ever used ubuntu and never kubuntu or mint or any or distro