Comments on: Distro Review: OpenSUSE 11.2 http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/11/opensuse/ There's No Place Like /Home Sat, 12 May 2012 20:16:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 Released | Operating System Blog http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/11/opensuse/comment-page-1/#comment-3959 openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 Released | Operating System Blog Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:50:37 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1426#comment-3959 [...] Dedoimedo • FRLinux (French) • MakeUseOf • Pro-Linux (German) • Adventures in Open Source • SourceForge (Japanese) • LWN • Dedoimedo • DistroWatch • Linux EXPRESS (Czech) • The [...] [...] Dedoimedo • FRLinux (French) • MakeUseOf • Pro-Linux (German) • Adventures in Open Source • SourceForge (Japanese) • LWN • Dedoimedo • DistroWatch • Linux EXPRESS (Czech) • The [...]

]]> By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/11/opensuse/comment-page-1/#comment-3727 Dan Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:55:32 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1426#comment-3727 @paul Glad OpenSUSE worked well for you. I was impressed with the improvements they've made to package management and so on in this one. @paul Glad OpenSUSE worked well for you. I was impressed with the improvements they’ve made to package management and so on in this one.

]]> By: Paul M http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/11/opensuse/comment-page-1/#comment-3726 Paul M Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:00:29 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1426#comment-3726 Good review.. I have used many distros in the past (including previous versions of Suse) and have been out of the Linux loop for several years. I decided to jump back in with Open Suse 11.2. (I personally have always been a fan of Yast.. lol) I had a huge ordeal installing the Nvidia graphics driver, but I think thats Nvidia/Xorg's fault, not Suse's..Quad SLI is not an easy thing to setup if you haven't done it before in Linux and the documentation on the Nvidia driver download page is way outdated. Some good people in the Open suse forums helped me find some documentation in the Nvidia repo that I was able to use to make it work.I am VERY impressed at how well everything works, and the OS runs very smooth for me. Being a gamer, its nice to have all of the kde eye candy Suse has to offer, centralized administration and really smooth OpenGL performance in games and 3d apps. Im very happy and look foreward to 11.3 Good review..
I have used many distros in the past (including previous versions of Suse) and have been out of the Linux loop for several years. I decided to jump back in with Open Suse 11.2. (I personally have always been a fan of Yast.. lol) I had a huge ordeal installing the Nvidia graphics driver, but I think thats Nvidia/Xorg’s fault, not Suse’s..Quad SLI is not an easy thing to setup if you haven’t done it before in Linux and the documentation on the Nvidia driver download page is way outdated. Some good people in the Open suse forums helped me find some documentation in the Nvidia repo that I was able to use to make it work.I am VERY impressed at how well everything works, and the OS runs very smooth for me. Being a gamer, its nice to have all of the kde eye candy Suse has to offer, centralized administration and really smooth OpenGL performance in games and 3d apps. Im very happy and look foreward to 11.3

]]> By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/11/opensuse/comment-page-1/#comment-3650 Dan Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:10:58 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1426#comment-3650 Hi, I've long since moved on from OpenSUSE. I distro hop all the time to review new things or I would have tried this to debug the problem certainly. Thanks for the tip anyway Hi, I’ve long since moved on from OpenSUSE. I distro hop all the time to review new things or I would have tried this to debug the problem certainly. Thanks for the tip anyway

]]> By: b3893234 http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/11/opensuse/comment-page-1/#comment-3649 b3893234 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:57:20 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1426#comment-3649 Hi ! If you are willing to debug booting problem, you might want to press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace when presented with blank screen. That sequence is supposed to kill X-server, and you might be able to examine X-server log. DG Hi !

If you are willing to debug booting problem, you might want to press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace when presented with blank screen. That sequence is supposed to kill X-server, and you might be able to examine X-server log.

DG

]]> By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/11/opensuse/comment-page-1/#comment-3180 Dan Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:35:49 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1426#comment-3180 @fromWinToLin - Thanks for the information @fromWinToLin – Thanks for the information

]]> By: fromWinToLin http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/11/opensuse/comment-page-1/#comment-3179 fromWinToLin Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:49:17 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1426#comment-3179 @Dan - For the time being, I found an unorthodox, temporary solution to using gecko-mediaplayer on openSUSE 11.2. What I did was installed the RPM for 11.1, and all seems to be working fine now. You'll notice that the version on the 11.2 Packman repository is 0.9.8-0.pm.2.1, while the 11.1 repository (and RPM) is version 0.9.8-0.pm.2.2. So it seems that openSUSE 11.1 is using a newer version of gecko-mediaplayer. According to Novell's Bugzilla, this is not a problem with Firefox or openSUSE 11.2. The is an issue with how Packman packaged gecko-mediaplayer. If anyone is interested, here is a link to the 11.1 RPM file. Works for me on 11.2, so maybe others will have the same luck: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/12910125/com/gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.8-0.pm.2.2.i586.rpm.html I'm not sure how to get in touch with the person who packages the RPMs on the Packman repository. All he needs to do is repackage gecko-mediaplayer with the "fix", and then 11.2 users will be able to use the latest version straight from the YaST package manager. @Dan – For the time being, I found an unorthodox, temporary solution to using gecko-mediaplayer on openSUSE 11.2. What I did was installed the RPM for 11.1, and all seems to be working fine now. You’ll notice that the version on the 11.2 Packman repository is 0.9.8-0.pm.2.1, while the 11.1 repository (and RPM) is version 0.9.8-0.pm.2.2.

So it seems that openSUSE 11.1 is using a newer version of gecko-mediaplayer. According to Novell’s Bugzilla, this is not a problem with Firefox or openSUSE 11.2. The is an issue with how Packman packaged gecko-mediaplayer.

If anyone is interested, here is a link to the 11.1 RPM file. Works for me on 11.2, so maybe others will have the same luck:

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/12910125/com/gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.8-0.pm.2.2.i586.rpm.html

I’m not sure how to get in touch with the person who packages the RPMs on the Packman repository. All he needs to do is repackage gecko-mediaplayer with the “fix”, and then 11.2 users will be able to use the latest version straight from the YaST package manager.

]]> By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/11/opensuse/comment-page-1/#comment-3080 Dan Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:35:09 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1426#comment-3080 @fromWinToLin - Sounds like it's a common problem then. I would suggest everyone with this problem file a bug and tell the developers. Often the priority of bug fixes is decided by the amount of people complaining about them. Hope it's fixed soon! @fromWinToLin – Sounds like it’s a common problem then. I would suggest everyone with this problem file a bug and tell the developers. Often the priority of bug fixes is decided by the amount of people complaining about them. Hope it’s fixed soon!

]]> By: fromWinToLin http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/11/opensuse/comment-page-1/#comment-3078 fromWinToLin Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:39:18 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1426#comment-3078 gecko-mediaplayer plugin also crashes Firefox for me on openSUSE 11.2. I used to use it back on 11.1, since it worked so well with embedded videos (using GNOME MPlayer to play the videos.) I hope it's fixed soon. I use Firefox 3.5, gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.8, and openSUSE 11.2 i586. gecko-mediaplayer plugin also crashes Firefox for me on openSUSE 11.2. I used to use it back on 11.1, since it worked so well with embedded videos (using GNOME MPlayer to play the videos.)

I hope it’s fixed soon. I use Firefox 3.5, gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.8, and openSUSE 11.2 i586.

]]> By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/11/opensuse/comment-page-1/#comment-3060 Dan Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:41:52 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1426#comment-3060 @terjejh Thanks for the information. Some of those things I did cover in the article or comments, like the installation of KDE package patterns with Zypper and autologin. Chromium was added to the contrib repo not long after I wrote this but you're absolutely right. It's good that it's available now. @terjejh Thanks for the information. Some of those things I did cover in the article or comments, like the installation of KDE package patterns with Zypper and autologin. Chromium was added to the contrib repo not long after I wrote this but you’re absolutely right. It’s good that it’s available now.

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