Re: Suse vs OpenSuse

From: Michel Catudal (mcatudal_at_comcast.net)
Date: 09/17/05 

Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:29:10 -0500

Le Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:05:42 -0700, PerfectReign a écrit :

> On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 22:57:41 +0100, Brian pretented somebody gave a rat's
> ass and spewed forth:
>
>> On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 23:33:53 +0200, Almaleh wrote:
>>
>>> I think Suse 9.3 professionnal is better than the new version OpenSuse
>>> 10. Is it right ?
>>>
>> I have no idea what "better" means, but as OpenSuse 10 is apparently still
>> a beta release a comparison would be premature anyway.
>>
>
> To the OP, why? What is better/worse. I have the iso files sitting right
> here for beta3, but haven't installed them yet on a system.

It all depends what is important for you. If you enjoy having suseplugger
crash at almost every boot then SuSE 9.3 would be considered better
otherwise you would consider SuSE 10 to be better.

So far the only reason I am using version 9.3 over 10 is that version 10
has some issues compiling some of the programs I need and I found that
just installing packman files was an easier approach. The drawback is
that I have to do a kill on the gnome desktop and then kill dcopserver,
kdeinit and erase .DCOP* and then reload gnome. If that doesn't do the
trick I have to do it all over again. Another work around is not to
reboot the machine.

If I didn't have that problem I would say that Version 10 is much better
than version 9.3
I am looking forward to the release of version 10 which seems to deal
with a lot of problems that were introduced in version 9.3

There are few outstanding bugs though that are not likely be be fixed
in version 10.

1-When choosing French as the language during installation it defaults
to the AZERTY keyboard whether or not you have choosen an AZERTY keyboard.
Choosing a US Keyboard goes around the problem. It is very annoying
to have a keyboard where you have no clue where some important keys are.

2-By default the gnome install doesn't allow going to the console with
ctrl alt F2 (or other function keys). This is extremely infuriating.
Whoever made the decision for that default should be shot.

3-The cursors keys on the right of the keyboard don't work in most
applications. The numbers are entered no matter what the status of Num is.
It works correctly in some applications but doesn't in most. The keyboard
driver should obey the status of the Num key and not act as an obnoxious
*** by overridding the choices of the owner of the computer.

4-An upgrade blows the MBR, there is no option to keep that from happening
and a boot on PC Dos and fdisk /mbr is needed to restore the sanity of the
computer after an upgrade to any SuSE version. The upgrade progrem should
check or at least give the option to fix the problem. In the install the
default is to put grub on the MBR and it is rather foggy on how to get it
to not do that and you can easily mess up your bootloader this way. For
any user of the OS/2 or other bootloader there is an urge to grab the
shotgun or send a letter of insults to Novell for that obnoxious behavior.

5-The permissions aren't set correctly for video and audio access. The
PC is basically crippled until you fix that. Running under root or not
using the sound or video are not acceptable options. 

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