I decided to make this poll after some time has passed after the release of openSUSE 11.2
The reason being to avoid any initial opinions of the release and allow some time for bug fixes that might apply.
Doing a poll at release often biases to one side or another, ranging from “the best thing since sliced bread” to “worst piece of garbage in the history of mankind”
So allowing
aww **** I hit the post button too soon by mistake…
No edit feature makes this a hard topic to do now…
mods please delete this topic. I intended to add a poll and everything and revise the title of the post…
cant do that without the edit feature.
It didn’t… since I don’t use it and will skip it 
Wonderful.
TaraIkeda wrote:
> No edit feature
i thought it was possible to edit, for five minutes after the
post…did they take that out…or you didn’t see the edit button or
what???
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palladium
Ubuntu is an African word meaning “I can’t set up Debian.”
No its not in the polls section
It’s been working exceptionally well for me. I just bought a (low budget) new desktop computer for school. Intel Core 2 Quad processors Q8300 @ 2.5 GHz each, Nvidia GForce 9500 GT, 4 GB DDR3, 500GB storage. I got Windows 7 from my college for free. Set aside 100GB for it, installed it, haven’t booted it since the first install.
Continued to install openSUSE 11.2 64 bit (my first 64 bit computer!) and everything worked smoothly. Even getting the Nvidia driver from the repos was easy! No reboot necessary, I just logged out and then back in and all the desktop effects worked. All 4 processors are recognized as well as all 4 GB of ram
My wireless keyboard stopped working, although that’s a hardware problem as it won’t work with windows on this computer or my laptop and it use to work on my laptop. But I quickly swapped in another of my wireless keyboards and it worked flawlessly.
At first I thought the ethernet card was malfunctioning because, prior to this point I had been using Windows XP on my laptop for internet connection sharing since I didn’t know how to do it with Network Manager (swerdna has an excellent guide for the ifup way but I thought it a pain to have to switch back and forth), but it turns out XP would drop the shared connection until I restarted my laptop again, then the connection would work for another hour and drop. I then figured out how to share my internet connection with Network Manager and it’s so much easier and better than in windows!
Overall, I’d have to say that 11.2 has been nothing short of amazing on my desktop, my laptop, and my parent’s desktop at home. I’ve upgraded two of my friends to 11.2 and they haven’t had any problems either.
As always, your mileage may vary 
Take Care,
Ian
snip…a (low budget) new desktop computer for school.Intel Core 2 Quad processors Q8300 @ 2.5 GHz each, Nvidia GForce 9500 GT, 4 GB DDR3,
Low Budget!!!
Wakou blushes at his lowly PC specs and DREAMS of quad-cores, 4Gb DDR3, and a nice pokey Graphics card.
:’(:’(:’(:’(
Haha well with college and all I can’t afford the $1200+ amount Dell would charge for the same specs even without a monitor. I got it without a monitor and without an operating system for $579, everything above included. I just use my Westinghouse 32" hdtv as a monitor and it works out nicely.
Got it from an Ebay store which has a website. It comes with a 3 year warranty (which I had to use as soon as I got it since the power supply was shot, but I called and got a new one the next day!) so it was a pretty good deal I’d say.
ComputerLX.com - Computer Systems Reseller
They go by AllPcZone on ebay.
I’m not a hardware specialist or anything so I have no idea if anything here is low grade but here are the specs of my desktop:
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q8300 1333MHz 45NM
Intel Standard Processor Cooling Fan
ASUS P5P43TD PRO Motherboard
Dual Channel 4GB DDR3 1333MHZ PC3-10600
500GB SATA2 16MB CACHE 7200RPM
22X DVD-RW- Dual Layer with Lightscribe
nVidia GeForce 9500GT 1GB DVI/HDTV PCI-Express Video Card
Realtek 8-Channel Digital Sound Onboard
Realtek 10/1000 Ethernet Network Card (onboard)
BBC Voyager Mid-Tower ATX Case (it’s a sweet case with a blue lit fan on the side)
Okia-a-power 550 Watt ATX Power Supply
Then it came with usb keyboard and mouse and a crappy little Speaker system. But everything worked out of the box.
Take Care,
Ian
I just installed 11.2 (Gnome) on my Thinkpad last night from the LiveCD.
I was surprised that when I ran the update, it pulled in Flash and ttyfonts(?) automatically! I didn’t specify to install Flash, but it did anyway (Flash 10.x)!
That’s all well and good, but I was surprised that it did not detect my Microsoft LifeCam NX 6000! I mean, not at all! This is a first, because both Ubuntu and Fedora have been detecting it for a while now and each iteration has gotten better and better with it.
I used to think it was a KDE issue (no “Cheese” equivalent to easily see if it is recognized) but it doesn’t look like it.
So I’m still experimenting at this point.
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:56:02 +0000, TaraIkeda wrote:
> aww **** I hit the post button too soon by mistake… No edit feature
> makes this a hard topic to do now… mods please delete this topic. I
> intended to add a poll and everything and revise the title of the
> post…
> cant do that without the edit feature.
It seems the thread has taken on a life of its own - feel free to start a
new thread with the poll you wanted to post.
As for me, I’ve upgraded 4 systems so far (of 6) - one 64-bit, 3 32-bit;
three local, one remote (with zypper dup). 2 laptops, 2 desktops.
Oh, and I did a day’s worth of testing on a spare laptop to ensure the
software I needed to have running would run OK. The only problem
software I’ve found so far is VMware Server 2.0.2 on one of my 32-bit
systems.
All four of them are working very well. The 64-bit system had some
problems with the keyboard and mouse under X (but not at the console)
after the initial isntall, but updates fixed that issue. However, the
updater also had problems (I was using zypper, but tried YaST as well)
because the updater uses aria2 to download, and I had an older version
installed on the system that was being picked up rather than the version
in the aria2c package included with 11.2.
Took a little work to figure out that was the problem. I’ll give zypper
one thing, the logs are VERY verbose. Almost too verbose, IMHO.
I was very pleased to see that my Wacom Intuos4 tablet was recognized and
functions perfectly (other than the OLED panels, which I had applied a
customized kernel module under 11.1 to support - and haven’t patched yet
on 11.2).
Jim
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator
I have installed 11.2 on five machines. My initial take was that it is superb. However a few problems have emerged:
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nework manager for wifi is very buggy, impossible to get working so far for either of the two laptops. I fell back to traditional method. (Have just downloaded wicd which seems promising.)
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NFS server. I have used this for years over my home lan. Suddenly with 11.2 it has changed. The only way that I have got it to work is by turning off the firewall on the server machine. Fortunately this has no external access otherwise this would be serious.
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Dolphin in super user mode is a very poor replacement for konqueror - mainly because it will not let me open kwrite to modify files.
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One laptop has a uvc video driver for it’s Chicony usb camera. I have not been able to get this working at all. (This was previously a Toshiba dedicated Vista machine.) On the other laptop the camera was found immediately.
Cheers
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:46:01 +0000, NicholasJMoore wrote:
> 1) nework manager for wifi is very buggy, impossible to get working so
> far for either of the two laptops. I fell back to traditional method.
> (Have just downloaded wicd which seems promising.)
Must be a KDE thing (seeing as you’re using Dolphin as well) - in GNOME
it works pretty well for me.
> 2) NFS server. I have used this for years over my home lan. Suddenly
> with 11.2 it has changed. The only way that I have got it to work is by
> turning off the firewall on the server machine. Fortunately this has no
> external access otherwise this would be serious.
I had seen this on 11.1 occasionally as well - but not consistently. I
find the NFS server works better on 11.2 in this regard. On 11.1, what I
would do is shut down the firewall, connect, and then restart the
firewall - I found that worked just fine.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator
Sadly I’ve had quite a few problems with 11.2, but mainly on my brand new desktop.
My laptop runs great mostly, apart from the occasional KDE4 plasma crash.
The interesting thing is that it started when I installed 11.2 proper, before that I was running milestone 8 updated, and it ran like a dream.
But on my desktop I’ve re-installed nearly 10 times already using both 32 and 64bit versions, DVD and liveCD versions, each time having problems with sound, video playback through kaffeine, k3b refusing to write, hplip not working properly (I eventually figured out that I need to specify my own printer IP rather than use the one it detected!).
I still get a 10 second pause when copying files with dolphin every now and then, and I completely gave up trying to burn CDs/DVDs because it was getting too expensive.
It seems to be finally running smoothly, although whether the kernel update had anything to do with it I don’t know.
I had issues with burning good DVD/CDs ISO’s plus some rather funky behavior regarding reading from the CD drive after installing 11.2. The other day when I booted up from a known good ISO of parted magic it just kept cycling in and out instead of starting it. I took that to mean my DVD drive was on its last legs. It was a good quality Plextor about 2.5 years old. I swaped it out with a newer (not new) Liteon drive and the problems went away. I was able to burn good iso copies with it.
So what type and age of DVD/CD drive do you have? Is it a ide or SATA? Hardware issues can be deceptive if they are intermittant.
As for 11.2, meh. Nice new looks.
Ditto. Gnome’s ‘edit’ works nicely (after loading all gnome libs…) but kwrite throws an error. Very dumb regression. Haven’t tested lately, so it may have been fixed already.
The drive I have problems with is an LG GH22NS50 SATA drive, and I bought it on the 22nd December 2009.
I’ve tried Maxell DL-DVD8, Verbatim 4xDL-DVD8, DVDRW, and cheap i-b@se DVD and CD disks.
The same disks work in the same drive on the same computer running windows xp, so I know it’s not a hardware or media problem.
I messed around with one like that. Stopped it and changed it for an other one. Would not work with any distro, not with any media, not with latest firmware.
Being that it is a SATA drive might be the issue with how K3B in 11.2 handles it. No way to tell unless others using the same type connected drive also have a problem. Those who chime in on such a issue should mention their arrangement. Now there is a bug with 11.2 64bit where data discs are not always recognized (noted in a different thread). I have noticed this happening especially after running a VM session. A reboot seems to get it going again for me.
Didn’t update and think I will leapfrog to 11.3.