OpenSuse 11.1 aims at user-friendly desktop
News OpenSuse 11.1 integrates the KDE 4.1 desktop environment. The version of KDE 4.1 in OpenSuse has additional features, such as the ability for the entire desktop to behave as a folder view, that were backported from the current test version of KDE...
[December 16, 2008, 15:25]
openSuSE 11.0 - A Closer Look
Blog I have now installed openSuSE at least once with each of these, and I prefer KDE 4.0. Since posting the First impressions blog about the new openSuSE 11.0 release, I have spent quite a bit more time exploring it - in the process of which I have...
[June 24, 2008, 13:20]
openSuSE 11.1 Released
Blog This release includes an updated Linux kernel (of course), Gnome 2.24 and KDE 4.1.3 (KDE 3.5.10 is also included), OpenOffice.org 3.0, Firefox 3.0.4, and a lot more - 230 new features, according to the openSUSE News!
[December 19, 2008, 8:43]
OpenSuse 10.3 nears end of life
News The OpenSuse project will stop supporting version 10.3 of the Linux distribution as of 31 October, a key member of the team has said. The announcement comes in the same week that OpenSuse released the fifth milestone build of OpenSuse 11.2 and...
[August 13, 2009, 15:46]
openSUSE Installation, DVD vs. LiveCD
Blog Comment More good news, openSUSE announced this week they would use 8-9 month update cycles, giving them the flexibility to include the latest KDE or kernel updates rather than get caught lagging like Ubuntu et al.recently did.
[January 7, 2009, 16:04]
OpenSuse 11 released
News Users have several download options if they want to install OpenSuse 11.0: they can get live CDs for either the Gnome or KDE desktop environments, allowing the operating system to be run without altering their PCs, or they can get a full DVD image...
[June 19, 2008, 17:02]
openSUSE Installation, DVD vs. LiveCD
Blog I added several more Linux distributions (it now multi-boots Windows XP Professional, Ubuntu, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, openSUSE and Fedora). I installed openSUSE 11.1 from the DVD distribution, rather than the LiveCD as I had done before.
[January 5, 2009, 14:16]
Good Things on the Way
Blog Once again, I have had Mandriva One 2010 running on most of my systems at least since the Beta release, and it looks very good.openSuSE 11.2: Due just over a week after Mandriva 2010, on 12 November. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like openSuSE...
[October 22, 2009, 13:13]
Good Things on the Horizon - But Use Caution!
Blog One bit of good news for HP 2133 netbook owners (like me).the kernel seems to get CPU frequency scaling right without requiring a manual edit of the boot command.openSuSE 11.2 Milestone 4: I've been trying the openSuSE 11.2 development releases...
[August 4, 2009, 16:05]
Novell finalises OpenSuse 11
News Features added to OpenSuse 11.0 since version 10.3, the latest stable version, include Linux kernel 2.6.25, Xen 3.2 virtualisation, windowing engine X.Org 7.3, version 2.22 of the Gnome desktop manager, and both versions 3.5.9 and version 4 of the...
[June 2, 2008, 16:53]
Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog Starting today, I will replace Mandrive on the S6510 with VectorLinux, and on the S2110 with openSuSE.jw 10/12/2008 Hmmm, two of the partitions, actually, as I have the KDE version on my S6510, and the Gnome version on my S2110.
[December 10, 2008, 8:26]
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 2
Blog Windows XP Professional openSuSE 11.1 However, at least with these never releases they have all of the bits of GRUB in the right places except for the actual configuration file (menu.lst), so I just let it install LILO, then I copied the GRUB...
[January 29, 2009, 14:02]
Mandriva Linux - Wonderful and Maddening
Blog Well, since I've gone through both Ubuntu and openSuSE Linux, and my curiosity about Unix systems in general has really started to kick in, I've decided to go through a few more variants to see what they are like, how they load on my laptops, and...
[July 1, 2008, 11:07]
Mandriva One 2010.0 (including Moblin UI)
Blog I'm late, Mandriva 2010 has been out for a week now, and openSuSE is due out already today. Firefox 3.5.5, OpenOffice 3.1.1, GIMP for grpahics, Amarok for audio and Dragon Player for video, and of course lots of KDE applications and applets.
[November 12, 2009, 7:38]
Kubuntu Netbook Release Coming
Blog Comment I've worked with both Mandriva and openSuSE/KDE, are these what you consider better than Kubuntu? Can you give us examples of some better KDE distributions? I am personally not very partial to KDE, so I haven't spent much time with it, and thus can...
[August 12, 2009, 14:26]
Red Hat releases Fedora 7
News Fedora competes with OpenSuse from Novell and with the up-and-coming Ubuntu version of Linux from Canonical. Among other Fedora 7 features are Gnome 2.18 and KDE 3.5.6 desktop interface software; fast switching among multiple users; better power...
[June 4, 2007, 9:37]
Fedora 5 released
News Novell, whose OpenSuSE project competes with Fedora for developer attention, has a different approach to Linux eye candy called XglL. Both of Linux's major graphical user interface packages, GNOME and KDE, have been updated to versions 2.14 and 3.5...
[March 22, 2006, 8:15]
HP Pavillion dv2-1010ez Entertainment Notebook
Blog Not much fun, nor very interesting, so I moved on to another distribution.openSuSE 11.2 is also using a newer Linux kernel, so I took that next. I still intend to try a few other distributions, especially the newer ones as they become available...
[September 20, 2009, 9:12]
