Just FYI, have tried the official release of 13.1 and find some problems with the KDE Live DVD:
–Firefox freezes on the openSuse home page, have to close and restart; history not working, but haven’t tried to fix that in the ‘Live’ mode
–LIbreOffice won’t start: “can’t install user”
–System info doesn’t show CPUs
These worked in 13.1 RC2 on the same machine (Toshiba Satellite). Looks like I’ll watch this space for a while before going to production with 13.1.
I will mention a few issues I had with openSUSE 13.1’s live DVD via a USB install:
Things were VERY slow to start.
Performance overall is sluggish at best
I had to use the installer mode just to get somewhere.
It wasnt encouraging.
Running from a DVD is always slow since a DVD is slower then a hard drive and most of file system has to be loaded into memory. Running from a memory stick is better but still slower then a real drive.
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Looking to confirm my memory, I could find only RC1 of 13.1. It launches LibreOffice and Firefox doesn’t freeze, but SysInfo does NOT show CPUs. Will look more for my copy of RC2.
Have run the 13.1 KDE LiveCD several times on my machine
i7-4700MQ
As the “Q” indicates, this is a Quad core.
Somewhat expected KDE sysinfo cannot differentiate between cores and processors and also likely pipeling(this last one my guess) so reports 8 processors.
Haven’t had a problem with FF.
Maybe you should post info about your system hardware?
TSU
Your message explains why sysInfo shows four CPUs when the Toshiba spec says 2: Intel Core I5 M480 @ 2.67 GHz. Supports MMX and SSE2,3,4.
I seem to have discarded my disk of RC2 and also deleted the .iso files.
Very dissapointed with KDE live CD, not keen to install 13.1. Acer aspire 5336, same old problem of black screen. Using nomodeset can get screen working, but lots of crashes, issue of insufficient disk space? (running from USB stick readonly created using suse image writer). Finally crashes and blank screen. All I could do was turn it off, unusable. Should be getting more reliable with each new version. Never got these crashes with older live CDs. Any suggestions?
Video problems most likely. What video do you have?
Mobile Intel 4 series express chipset. I forgot used to use these 2 as boot options
acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux.
this cures the backlight issue but why does 13.1 from the live USB crash?
opensuse 12 live CD on USB worked fine on this laptop.
There is a problem with the Intel driver on the final that I guess is a problem for your card. Installing and running update should pull in the new driver that fixes what ever was wrong with the origianl.
Thanks. The issue I am having with the live cd seem to be due to how they have tried to cram everything into the space. The issues I am having are like this openSUSE 13.1 - It could have been awesome sections low space and crashes.
On 2013-11-29 20:56, zaretskaya wrote:
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> Thanks. The issue I am having with the live cd seem to be due to how
> they have tried to cram everything into the space. The issues I am
> having are like this ‘openSUSE 13.1 - It could have been awesome’
> (http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/opensuse-13-1.html) sections low
> space and crashes.
>
>
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Let’s explore openSUSE 13.1 Bottle. This was the first serious home
distro that I used, and have used loyally for many years. Then, starting
with version 12.X, things went downhill kind of. Not bad, but hardly the
plug ‘n’ play beast that I used to love.
With the fresh release of the 13th edition of this operating system, if
you can trust the numbering scheme, it is time for a fresh start
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It means the writer knows nothing about the openSUSE numbering scheme.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
You have to understand dedoimedo’s writing style. That was complete sarcasm on his part, and had nothing to do with knowledge of the opensuse release versions.
I read his review, I personally think they tend to be spot-on.
Well some of the thing he came across would have been resolved if he had bothered to read the release notes. But I have no real problem for a reviewer to show problem he encountered but he should at least read the release notes!
On 2013-11-30 17:26, katanacb wrote:
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> You have to understand dedoimedo’s writing style. That was complete
> sarcasm on his part, and had nothing to do with knowledge of the
> opensuse release versions.
I don’t see it.
openSUSE does not have major/minor versions. There is no 12.X series,
nor 13.X series - and it is important to know that. It is the wrong
starting point. If I see a bad starting point, then I start the reading
biased against the piece.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-11-30 17:26, katanacb wrote:
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> openSUSE does not have major/minor versions. There is no 12.X series,
> nor 13.X series - and it is important to know that. It is the wrong
> starting point.
If openSUSE had such minor/major versions then they would not have used
same default wallpaper on 12.3 and 13.1.
On other had default wallpaper got changed between 12.1==>12.2 ==>12.3 .
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GNOME 3.10.1
openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop