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SuSE Linux Enterprise 11 vs. openSuSE 11.1
Blog SuSE Linux Enterprise gives the impression of being a more polished version of openSuSE, right from the first installation screen. I was able to get the display working properly by copying over the openchrome driver that I already had compiled and...
[February 27, 2009, 8:51]
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]
OpenSuse 11 released
News Version 11 of the OpenSuse Linux distribution was made available on Thursday. Claiming the new release "sets the bar for what a Linux distribution should be", community manager Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier said on Thursday that OpenSuse 11.0 is "a...
[June 19, 2008, 17:02]
Novell survey: Suse users are young, technical males
News Users of the Linux distribution OpenSuse are overwhelmingly technical, young males and they prefer working in a character-based environment rather than with a GUI, or graphical user interface, according to a survey conducted by Novell, the creator...
[May 9, 2007, 9:41]
OpenSuse 11.1 aims at user-friendly desktop
News Novell has launched version 11.1 of OpenSuse, its desktop-oriented, community-supported version of Linux. OpenSuse competes with desktop Linux distributions such as Red Hat's Fedora and Canonical's Ubuntu, with Ubuntu currently the most popular.
[December 16, 2008, 15:25]
Novell woos Red Hat developers
News Novell announced earlier this week that its openSuse Build Service development tool, which already supports Novell's openSuse variations, Ubuntu and Debian, among others, will now support software from Red Hat, Novell's main competitor and the...
[January 25, 2008, 15:45]
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]
Novell finalises OpenSuse 11
News OpenSuse 11.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) appeared on Thursday, the same day Novell revealed strong growth in its Linux business, strengthening its position against Linux market leader Red Hat. Features added to OpenSuse 11.0 since version 10.3, the...
[June 2, 2008, 16:53]
HP 2133 Mini-Note: Lessons Learned
Blog Comment Like you, the first Linux that I was able to successfully install on the HP 2133 was openSuSE 11.1. I don't recall that I was ever able to get the display resolution exactly right when using the vesa driver on openSuSE, though.
[March 11, 2009, 7:29]
Quad-Boot Fun, and A Correction
Blog I now have my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 set up to quad-boot XP/Ubuntu/openSuSE/Mandriva! In an earlier post I said that the openSuSE installation did not recognize a previously installed Ubuntu partition and set it up to dual-boot.
[July 2, 2008, 13:41]
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]
openSUSE 11.0 First Impressions
Blog I do, however, think that these latest versions of either openSUSE or Ubuntu would be excellent alternatives for most ordinary PC users, including laptop users, and that is a huge step forward for Linux in my experience.
[June 20, 2008, 12:45]
SuSE Linux Enterprise 11 Released
Blog I got around all this mess by simply copying over the /lib/firmware/b43 directory from the openSuSE partition to the SLED partition; of course, it would also be possible to follow the instructions at the Linux Wireless site, to first compile the...
[March 25, 2009, 13:57]
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]
A Few Notes about the GRUB Bootloader
Blog More entertainingly, it is also used for the openSUSE "winter penguin" boot graphic. Of the distributions I have installed, the graphic GRUB (grub-gfxboot) is used by openSUSE, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS and SimplyMEPIS; the non-graphical version is used...
[January 9, 2009, 16:32]
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 3
Blog First, because there in an article in the Mandriva 2009 Release Notes about it, and second because I had seen the same problem with openSuSE, and they even include a shell script to fix it. Or, if you have access to an openSuSE distribution, you...
[February 3, 2009, 13:48]
openSuSE stumbles, Ubuntu shines
Blog I tried loading openSuSE 11.0 on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110 over the weekend. But openSuSE was a different story, it didn't seem to want to actually change the resolution, no matter what I did.
[July 15, 2008, 9:21]
DIY Dual Atom Nettop System
Blog Then I decided to try the openSuSE 11.2 Milestone 2 distribution. So, I gave up on that one and went back to openSuSE 11.1. No thanks, I'll happily load a variety of Linux distributions, and I'll feel good about not paying the Microsoft Surcharge...
[June 5, 2009, 13:41]
Another Look at openSolaris
Blog I assumed that because of openSolaris not understanding ext4 or Extended Partitions, I wouldn't be able to multi-boot under control of the openSolaris GRUB, so all I really wanted to do was figure out the boot command so that I could add that to...
[August 7, 2009, 15:25]
openSuSE 11.0 - A Closer Look
Blog 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 installed it three more times. I have now installed openSuSE at least once with each of...
[June 24, 2008, 13:20]
