Suse 10.1 x386_64

[hard candy]

Just installed OpenSuse 10.1 x386_64 bit version. Works very well on my other computer with an Asus 8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard, AMD x2 3800+ CPU, Nvidia 7900GT, 2 dvdrw drives, an IDE HD, and 2 SATA drives. The Nvidia 7900GT was configured automagickly, Dell 2007wfp LCD was autoconfigured at 1680x1050.
The motherboard has two ethernet interfaces built in, I had to disable the Nvidia ethernet and use the the Marvell ethernet interface. Suse had configured both but the Nvidia ethernet did not work very well, probably due to being a very new chip. But I was impressed that Suse tried to configure it.
The addon CD has some non-OSS programs such as Acroread, flash player, java, Real Player, some proprietary fonts, etc that play nicely with Firefox running in the 64 bit environment.
I am impressed, Novell has done a very good job in doing better than the WinXP 64 bit version. Should be a good selling point for them to migrate commercial/corporate users away from WinXP. And the nice thing is the corporate user will be able to do trials without buying a license with OpenSuse.
Edit; Whoa! I realized the Suse had installed a "dummy" nvidia driver- due to proprietary reasons, I guess. Just installed the Nvidia 8756 driver. GLXgears is now showing 16,667.676 fps (honest, no window resizing or anything).

[Parcival]

Wow, that's impressive. However, I bet it's still very ressource hungry, isn't it? Like when you leave it running logged in in KDE without any specific apps running, how much memory does it use?

[cybertron]

GLXgears is now showing 16,667.676 fps (honest, no window resizing or anything).
I can believe that based on what I get with my 6600 GT. Just out of curiousity, how is that Dell 2007? I've heard a lot of complaints about them that is making me shy away from getting one.

[hard candy]

Wow, that's impressive. However, I bet it's still very ressource hungry, isn't it? Like when you leave it running logged in in KDE without any specific apps running, how much memory does it use?

2 GB RAM, TOP shows it using approx 1.75 GB at idle, but that is misleading since Linux loves memory and does not want to give it up. No slowdown on anything so far.

Just out of curiousity, how is that Dell 2007? I've heard a lot of complaints about them that is making me shy away from getting one.
This is the wide panel, I also have a Viewsonic wide panel 19 inch, the Dell looks just as good. I have not noticed any backlight leakage or smearing. It is about one month old so I am wondering if they tightened the manufacturing process up.

[fxrsliberty]

I have, as a newbie, been working in linux only since Novell bought SuSe, jumped right in and started learning all that I can. I have compiled lots of things and written some simple scripting changes , I even figured out\wrote the instructions for adding LTSP to Novell's NLD 9. The amazing thing is the SuSe's Desktop is so good that I stay in it almost all the time.
I run an IBM r51 1.5 GHZ Centrino , 2 GB ram , 100 gig HD, Intel 855 GM .
XGL is cool, I love the 3D cube.
anyway i'm gonna sound a little like a marketing agent., I think the desktop Linux dream is real and it features heavily on Novell\SUSE.