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   Review - openSUSE

   11.4 Milestone 4 (Dec 17, 2010)

   OpenSuse 11.4 Milestone 5 (KDE 4.6 b2, kernel 2.6.37 RC5, Gnome 2.32.1, LXDE .5.6)
   
   OpenSuse 11.4 Milestone 5 will boot from YAST with all XFCE, LXDE, KDE, and Gnome installed. FXCE won't show up even though programs will. Expect it to freeze up when memory gets exceeded (with 512 MB of RAM), and if you have 768 MB or 1 GB of RAM than you have no worries. The crashing is 100% RAM related. Wants to go into "Fast boot" than its slow boot fail-safe kicks in after 20 seconds.
   
   To avoid crashing, I looked up "Resolution" in KDE menu search-box and used KDM to change the resolution to 1280x768 with those PCs on 512 MB of RAM. This crash phenomenon is known to happen in KDE 4.4.4 in OpenSuse 11.3
   
   KDE 4.6 beta 2 looks cool by itself. No more kernel lock to increase performance by 10%! LXDE stilll a great desktop shell, and didn't crash. Best for 512 MB of RAM PCs.
   
   Gnome 2.32.2 never crashed yet. LibreOffice looks and acts like OpenOffice. no complaints. Had to install VLC to play audio codec.

2. 
   Review - openSUSE

   11.3 RC2 (Jul 6, 2010)

   11.3 RC2 64-bit review
   
   I didn't have BTRFS, because it is not tested. I know that OpenSuse developers backported all the BTRFS fixes from 2.6.35 kernel including 50 fixes. The OpenSuse developers listened to their community and packaged KDE 4.4.4 which fixes 2 crashes since KDE 4.4.3. I'm using EXT4 on mine. I'm sure that the BTRFS actually loads KDE, but will it freeze twice as much?
   KDE 4.4.4 has a nice tabbed desktop
   
   The 64-bit KDE 4.4.4 boots up fast on an athlon 64 X2 and 3 GB of RAM System Monitor shows only 250 MB used so memory footprint was decreased a bit. It may crash the first time, but not after the 3rd reboot. There was a Gnome game that triggered the crash. Crossover Linux 9 works excellent on OpenSuse 11.3. MS Office 2010 won't load in Crossover 9.0
   
   XLDE is still a buggy, and perhaps you should skip it at install and use XFCE instead. The installer was unforgiving with XLDE the first time through. Sometimes if Yast has the drives formatted in EXT4 the first time, the 2nd installation goes much more smoothly. I didn't risk XLDE again, because it'll still work in the RTM.
   
   On the 3rd cold boot, I didn't experience crashes, so the kernel must have some recuperative abilities like Skynet in Terminator 2!
   
   The wireless NIC was activated thru Yast. The Realtek sound worked, and the equalizer worked for Ogg Vorbis playing in Bangee.
   . New Features include the ability to read OpenSolaris UNIX file systems, ZFS. That wasn't possible with OpenSuse 11.2.
   
   One thing, I ask Yast to do for me is to include Snort and all the snort profiles so that i can analyze all the intrusions on my system. That is only an extra 60 MB! Then it can do something like a Backtrack Linux!
   
   Compared to Windows 7, Windows 7 doesn't crash. Windows 7 isn't free. OpenOffice 3.2 is an improvement. A bit easier to find stuff.
   
   5 stars.

3. 
   Review - openSUSE

   11.3 Milestone 6 (May 1, 2010)

   OpenSuse 11.2 review.
   
   I know I gave the beta a 1 star. I've been playing with Suse Linux 11.2 since November 2009. It saves your butt on laptops. When Ubuntu 9.` DVD stalls and Windows 7 gives you HDD errors during installations; Suse Linux 11.2 will install all three KDE, Gnome and XFCE onto your laptop on that almost dead HDD that was formatted on too many times. When that Windows partition really sucks, you can format the NTFS partition in BTRFS in Yast! Oh yeah, OpenOffice 3.1 is already compatible with DOCX, and the Crossover Linux RPM works without dependency hell problems like Ubuntu can! This is my favorite Linux distro! It is as stable as Windows 7 and Linux kernel wont be attacked constantly, because it's Linux! Fedora 12 had dependency problems with Crossover Linux, I had to use the shell version on Fedora....
   
   10 out of 10! Puts Ubuntu 9.1 to shame. Didn't have any of those kernel stalling on OpenSuse 11.2 unlike Ubuntu 9.1.
   
   Servers should go with Ubuntu, because they have long term releases and the kernel is like 2.6.32-25. 25 means it's really "Debian grade stable". The British really know how to do Linux SERVERS. The Germans know how to make it desktop grade!

4. 
   Review - GoldWave

   5.51 (Oct 15, 2009)

   I have a rocketfish USB microphone which is supposed to recognize any OS Win5+ automatically. Goldwave instantly recognizes my microphone. I normally talk in it, delete some tracks by highlighting and punching del button. Then I can raise the volume and it sounds better over the decimal level on Mediacoder. I use it for every podcast. I don't know how to override the internal vorbis encoder, only Aotuv b5 of 10/2006.

5. 
   Review - openSUSE

   11.2 Milestone 6 (Sep 12, 2009)

   OpenSuse 11.2 Milestone 7
   
   OpenSuse 11.1 was fantastic 4.5/5 for me and it booted up without many bugs. For 11.2 Milestone 7, I can't get into the login screen. The 2.6.31 RC9 kernel goes into a panic with a lot of 'fails' and gives me a login prompt. It's the kernel's fault. I doubt it is KDE's fault or Gnome's fault. If it can find WINDOWS VISTA, why can't it find KDE? Poorly done prototype, because Yast lures you into thinking it'd work on an ancient Athlon 64 X2 4800+ and Geforce 8800 GTX. I'm waiting until November 15.