For fun I am running OpenSuse 11.0 along side Ubuntu Hardy, and well it seems a winner compared to 11.1.
11.1 had random freeze outs, major issues with compiz and it seemed real sluggish.
However 11.0 seems stable and even KDE 4.2 seems rock solid.
It seems to be just as stable as Ubuntu Hardy on my system, and it seems easier to get more up to date packages then hardy but that is to be expected as Hardy is LTS.
But it was a real pain to get updated, I thought hardy was bad.
Out of curiosity wouldn’t be intel graphics would it?
11 still had the i810
I reckon if someone took this up it may solve a few peoples problems…
http://forums.opensuse.org/programming-scripting/opensuse-build-service-obs/414818-old-intel-i810-driver.html
On Wed, 27 May 2009 23:36:01 +0000, TaraIkeda wrote:
> 11.1 had random freeze outs, major issues with compiz and it seemed real
> sluggish.
I’ve just upgraded two of my systems to 11.1 and the one that I’m using
now also has experienced some problems with Compiz. I found that
upgrading to the version in the X11:XGL repository solved most of the
issues, but it seems the NVidia configuration needs to be tweaked some to
get equivalent performance.
Jim
It might be my issue, I have a intel 915 graphics card and it typically uses the i815 driver.
If that is the case its nice to know if there is a patch for it, but how easy it is to use that patch I dont know.
Until then I guess I stick to Suse 11.0, I dont want to compile unless its 100% necessary
This problem should be fixed in the new kernel…i think in openSUSE 11.2 it will work…the intel drivers make a lot of problems with the actual kernel…
Well until Opensuse 11.2 comes out I will stick it out, but if there is a patch I am willing to test it out.
hope it will be good enough
Well a week in and so far so good, I think I will make OpenSuse 11.0 my primary distro as Hardy is starting to lose out a bit.
OpenSuse 11.0 gives me a balance of up to date software but also stability.
It may be a coincidence, but even releases where always good/great for me, where odd ones were (very) problematic. I’m currently running OS 11.0 in all my machines (at home and at work) and will wait for 11.2. I expect it will keep up to the tradition.
My mom’s puter has an old 10.2 install dual-booting with XP (she can’t get used to any e-mail client other than outlook express, to my sorrow, but as she’s over 70, I’m not making a point of it). Everything in OS works as it should, while XP had to be reinstalled a couple of times.
Thats kind of how Ubuntu works, it seems like even numbered releases like 6.06, 6.10, 8.04 and 8.10 seem to work great while others like 7.04 and 9.04 suck bigtime.
Though 7.10 was decent, hopefully the trend Ubuntu has will keep up for next release.
> For fun I am running OpenSuse 11.0 along side Ubuntu Hardy, and well it
> seems a winner compared to 11.1.
> 11.1 had random freeze outs, major issues with compiz and it seemed
> real sluggish.
> However 11.0 seems stable and even KDE 4.2 seems rock solid.
> It seems to be just as stable as Ubuntu Hardy on my system, and it
> seems easier to get more up to date packages then hardy but that is to
> be expected as Hardy is LTS.
> But it was a real pain to get updated, I thought hardy was bad.
OS 11.1 KDE 4.2.4 here. I had similar issues at the outset, but I found a
botched xorg.conf was causing a lot of my problems. I have a dual display
with nVidia GF6600. I updated from 4.2.3 to 4.2.4 and things seem to be
extremely stable now and performance is close to what I had with KDE 3.5.x
on SuSE 10.3, which is what I upgraded from. I played with the 11.0 series
with KDE 4.0.x and 4.1.x, never really ‘did it’ for me. I’m happy at this
point.
> My mom’s puter has an old 10.2 install dual-booting with XP (she can’t
> get used to any e-mail client other than outlook express, to my sorrow,
> but as she’s over 70, I’m not making a point of it). Everything in OS
> works as it should, while XP had to be reinstalled a couple of times.
I love you guys that torment your mothers…
Why on earth does your 70 year old mom need to be dual booting?
If there’s one thing old ladies do, it’s talk.
The grey vote may well nudge this year into being the year of the linux desktop.
Network it! Global! 
> If there’s one thing old ladies do, it’s talk.
Yah I’m sure dual-booting Linux and Windows is the height of conversation at
Bunco night. 
She doesn’t, I wouldn’t dream of doing that to her. Grub is set to boot into windows after a few seconds, I thing she doesn’t even notice it.
But sometimes I need to use her computer when I go visit, and I won’t use windows if I can avoid it. I tought that was obvious, sorry.
My mum would kill me if I did something like that to her PC. Then again she’s 54 and bought herself a nice 17" laptop with Windows XP after asking me what to get. I won’t put her through the trauma of changing to Linux. I’ll just grind my teeth next time she rings with a virus problem lol!
If you need any intel drivers try the site here and they are working on new drivers for linux Intel Linux Graphics they are working to get more support for our community.