Reviews of openSUSE

1. 
   yokozuna

   Reviewing 11.2 Milestone 1 (Apr 23, 2009)

   Definitely my favourite distro. Actually I am using a highly customized version from http://susestudio.com Due to the service I was able to make my personal version of openSUSE.
2. 
   iamnotyou

   Reviewing 11.1 (Jan 1, 2009)

   Been running this as a beta (and now as release) for several weeks. There have not been any problems so far and it seems to be as simple to get up-and-running as Ubuntu's offerings. I am new to Linux and have been trying out different distro's as my time permits. OpenSUSE should get a serious look from people wanting a quick, easy install. There is quite a lot of support for it and a good place to start learning Linux.
3. 
   zridling

   Reviewing 11.1 (Dec 19, 2008)

   Nice to have DudeBoyz' experience with openSUSE. Couple of things to like about 11.1: (1) Many KDE 4.2 features are backported to SUSE's 4.1 implementation, and (2) YaST manager is so much better and faster than it was in 10.3. If you like SUSE, then much like Fedora 10, this is a stable version you can hang with for as long as you want.
4. 
   DudeBoyz

   Reviewing 11.1 (Dec 18, 2008)

   Here's a link to the DVD Torrent:
   
   http://download.opensuse....1-DVD-i586.iso.torrent
   
   I'm not anticipating any problems, but will re-visit the review if I find any.
   
   First - a small pet peeve. I wish they would NOT default to Single-Click Execute mode for their mouse configuration. It should be Double-Click like most other distros and like the Windows environment it seeks comparisons to.
   
   That said, one thing I do really like about the 11.1 Final is that they decided to include links to KDE 3 style configurations by default.
   
   For example, they have File Manager - Super User Mode/KDE3 listed in the menu along with the standard File Manager - Super User Mode for KDE 4.1.
   
   They have the same thing for Konsole as well as some others, which should really help ease the transition from KDE 3.x to KDE 4.1 for many users, I would imagine.
   
   It is a considerate gesture on their part and one I do think other distributions would be well served by adopting. It's a new addition - RC1 did not have that, I believe.
   
   OpenSUSE is not always the most pain free experience, but there are some features and configuration options that they provide in their distribution that no other companies do, so when it finally gets working 100%, OpenSUSE ends up being a better overall experience than many others.
   
   Unlike Slackware 12.x, OpenSUSE has a modern and easy to use installation routine that puts it a lot closer to say Mandrake 2009 than the harsh reality of Slackware's manual setup.
   
   So, all this to say that they bridge the gap well between consumer level operations and host level operations, making it perhaps the single best solution for mixed environments.
5. 
   dogbert0360

   Reviewing 11.1 RC1 (Nov 30, 2008)

   OpenSUSE 11.1 does look nice and all that...But one thing that I haven't noticed is about the internet connection, specificly not auto detecting my connection so when it boots up I have no internet. This is not a good thing and since most other distro's are able to auto detect your internet connection why can't openSUSE do the same.
   
   Yes, I know you can go into the network settings to manually configure it and I'm just being nit picky, but for a modern OS to not do this is just plain wrong.

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