Review: OpenSUSE 11.1
OpenSUSE (in various forms) has been around for quite some time and has been quite popular with developers and business users. It currently holds Distrowatch's number 2 spot on the page hit ranking and has a thriving community of users. Each release has seen the distro improve, though it's still not a distro that jumps to mind when most people think of Linux (that's reserved for Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and Mandriva).
OpenSUSE 11.1 is packing some good stuff; Kernel 2.6.27.7, Glibc 2.9, Gnome 2.24.1, KDE 4.1.3 (as well as 3.5.10), Xorg 7.4, OpenOffice 3.0.0 and Firefox 3.0.4 – so lets see how it runs on my old test machine (Athlon 3200+, 6600GT AGP, 1GB DDR1, 40GB ATA100).
The installation was surprisingly quick, though the catch was the system configuration happens once you reboot. In around 30 minutes it had finished and I sat watching my new OpenSUSE 11.1 desktop. Nothing happened. It sounds weird though I was expecting something. No update pop-ups, no hardware driver pop-ups and no further configuration required. After a bit of snooping I found the updates and kicked them off though I was having no luck with finding an easy way to get the proprietary Nvidia drivers installed.
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