blackbelt_jones
01-26-2006, 10:01 AM
I've been up all night fwith so I'm going to bed right now. I'll have more to say after some much needed z's. My three word firsat impression is as follows: "buggy but promising".
In the meantime, check out the awesome bootsplash screen! (http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/6102/background9wn.jpg)
(Later)
As I was saying, "Buggy but promising" is my initial impression, and since it's a beta release it's the promising part that's probably going to matter in the the end.
I haven't figured out how to mount CDs with SUSE10.1 yet. I'm used to CDs mounting automatically with SUSE, and they don't. withthis release. For the moment, I'm assuing this is probably a bug. I'm also assuming that there are several ways to get around it. With Debian I used to use KDisk free to mount CDs, and of course there's a way to do it at the command line that I just haven't learned yet.
For the time being, I simply used my other hard drive (which is running SUSE 10.0) as a back door. One of the first things I really loved about SUSE was how it makes it easy to save all the RPMs from the disks to a local directory on the hard drive and add the directory to the installation sources in yast., rendering it unnecessary for me to fumble with the CDs when I install the packages. So I copied the rpms from the disks to directory in hda2 and copied that directory to hdb2 very simply and painlessly with the help of a kanotix disk
I suppose that the lack of automatic CD mounting may not be a bug at all, but a deliberate change that I don't understand yet. Not so very long ago, I used to think SUSE was a shoddy distro because I kept losing my internet connection, but I eventually came to realize that the connection shut down only when I wasn't using it, and that this was actually a good thing, because if I'm not actually using my connection, then all I'm getting with it at that moment is vulnerability-- and when I need it again, clicking on the Kinernet "plug" icon will restore my connection in about one second.
As usual, I installed my SUSE system with Gnome, and the first thing that I noticed is that installing a basic Gnome system for 10.1only requires the first three CDs, instead of all five. The second thing I noticed was the cleanest, simplest default gnome default configuration that I've ever seen anywhere. At first, I thought that THIS was some kind of mistake. No upper panel? No window selector? No workplace swiitcher? No <i>clock?</i> And when I added the workplace swithcer, the was only one desktop.in place.
But it didn't take me long to realize that no mistake was made. I was able to get that Gnome desktop just the way I liked it-- more quickly, more easily and more completely than ever before without any preconceived notion of the "average" desktop configuration in the way. I don't know if SUSE or Gnome is responsible for the change, but I think it's a great idea.
.
In the meantime, check out the awesome bootsplash screen! (http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/6102/background9wn.jpg)
(Later)
As I was saying, "Buggy but promising" is my initial impression, and since it's a beta release it's the promising part that's probably going to matter in the the end.
I haven't figured out how to mount CDs with SUSE10.1 yet. I'm used to CDs mounting automatically with SUSE, and they don't. withthis release. For the moment, I'm assuing this is probably a bug. I'm also assuming that there are several ways to get around it. With Debian I used to use KDisk free to mount CDs, and of course there's a way to do it at the command line that I just haven't learned yet.
For the time being, I simply used my other hard drive (which is running SUSE 10.0) as a back door. One of the first things I really loved about SUSE was how it makes it easy to save all the RPMs from the disks to a local directory on the hard drive and add the directory to the installation sources in yast., rendering it unnecessary for me to fumble with the CDs when I install the packages. So I copied the rpms from the disks to directory in hda2 and copied that directory to hdb2 very simply and painlessly with the help of a kanotix disk
I suppose that the lack of automatic CD mounting may not be a bug at all, but a deliberate change that I don't understand yet. Not so very long ago, I used to think SUSE was a shoddy distro because I kept losing my internet connection, but I eventually came to realize that the connection shut down only when I wasn't using it, and that this was actually a good thing, because if I'm not actually using my connection, then all I'm getting with it at that moment is vulnerability-- and when I need it again, clicking on the Kinernet "plug" icon will restore my connection in about one second.
As usual, I installed my SUSE system with Gnome, and the first thing that I noticed is that installing a basic Gnome system for 10.1only requires the first three CDs, instead of all five. The second thing I noticed was the cleanest, simplest default gnome default configuration that I've ever seen anywhere. At first, I thought that THIS was some kind of mistake. No upper panel? No window selector? No workplace swiitcher? No <i>clock?</i> And when I added the workplace swithcer, the was only one desktop.in place.
But it didn't take me long to realize that no mistake was made. I was able to get that Gnome desktop just the way I liked it-- more quickly, more easily and more completely than ever before without any preconceived notion of the "average" desktop configuration in the way. I don't know if SUSE or Gnome is responsible for the change, but I think it's a great idea.
.