Nice Configuration Guide For Opensuse 10.3

http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfec...p_opensuse10.3

Note: A quick review indicates a couple of inconsistencies in the guide, like the recommendation to install both X-Chat and X-Chat Gnome, but there's a lot of good stuff here, especially if one prefers Gnome and is new to Linux.

Well, for the first time ever, I have been able to install VMware without suffering..
If only for that, this guide deserves to be read by the "starters" like me

I like reading some of the guides over there. I never seem to do precisely what the guides do, but sometimes there are extremely helpful sections for particularly non-standard things and good ways to install them.

Interesting that he singles out not to install libxine1 and keep the dumbed down xine stuff that comes by default on OpenSUSE. Keeps folks unencumbered by patent worries. But then, I don't worry anyway. I just want files to play! Never saw a guide before that pushed keeping the default xine rather than the real one that plays nearly anything. It's nice actually! I never knew anyone really ever didn't replace it with libxine1. Except of course the forum posters asking how to get anything to play on Linux! They are instantly directed do guides for switching out the xine packages for libxine1 versions and then they stop complaining.

Not the perfect desktop for me but like I said there are some great ways of installing useful software in there.

http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfec...p_opensuse10.3

Note: A quick review indicates a couple of inconsistencies in the guide, like the recommendation to install both X-Chat and X-Chat Gnome, but there's a lot of good stuff here, especially if one prefers Gnome and is new to Linux.
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The title is misleading. It should be "Nice Configuration Guide For Opensuse 10.3 (Gnome)".

http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfec...p_opensuse10.3

Note: A quick review indicates a couple of inconsistencies in the guide, like the recommendation to install both X-Chat and X-Chat Gnome, but there's a lot of good stuff here, especially if one prefers Gnome and is new to Linux.
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Many many thanks for this post. It is a great help and perhaps an administrator could turn it into a wiki guide or whatever. I'm not especially a gnome fan but could do a couple of things in KDE so thought i'd give gnome a go in suse. Trouble is for me i can only burn CD not DVD

I didn't like the menu system in KDE... although the rest of KDE is excellent.
thanks

Right click the lizard, choose switch to KDE menu style. Magic! The traditional KMenu! You might lose your system tray icons (at least I did), but if you logout and in again they come back.

The future is in the SUSE KDE Kickoff (that menu you didn't like) style though. That's what KDE4 uses. Or extremely similar anyway.

That guide is insane!

You will get a list of predefined online repositories. Select them all to make sure your system can install all available OpenSUSE 10.3 packages if they are needed. Click on Finish afterwards: [/b]

Even the debug repo! Now if a lot of people have been following that guide, no wonder a lot of people complain about yast sw_single being slow.

And he does not note that people should turn off automatic refresh of Main, Non-OSS (and debug). Having autofresh on for Main pulls down about 40-50 MB every time you start yast or zypper, and its compleatly unneed, since that repo NEVER changes (neither does non-oss or debug)

And why oh why should a "perfect" DESKTOP need packages from /repositories/server:/mail or /repositories/server:/php/