How do you plan to get your copy of openSUSE 11.1?
I plan to download the DVD via KTorrent. While I am a huge fan of the netinstaller, my reasoning is that downloading the entire distro during the installation (from the undoubtedly overloaded mirrors) will be more taxing on servers than just downloading the DVD image p2p style. And installation from a disc is always much faster than via netinstall.
I won’t install it all. Unlike most (all?) obsessed geeks here, I like to keep my SUSE version a bit longer. That is, I always skip two SUSE releases so I upgrade only when the End Of Life is reached of my current SUSE in use (or a bit sooner). I’m currently on 11.0, will skip 11.1 and 11.2 and will upgrade when 12.0 comes out
For ones with opensuse 11.0 I will just update or upgrade it
I have a new one with just vista in it and will use the dvd/cd to do a minimal installation and just add more stuffs that I need after to make the installation a bit faster.
Got a new Toshiba notebook with Vista Ultimate 64 on it and it is ready for the DVD installation. I can hardly wait.lol!
I am a bit like microchip8. But I am on 10.3 so maybe I will use 11.1 as the next. But I will not hurry at all. Wait a bit until the hype is a bit gone and the first reports show up in these forums.
Maybe I should have included a “The friggin’ updates! Bah, Humbug!” option…
Actually, I was aiming the question at those who are upgrading; but have it your way.
Me, heh, heh. Yeah, I’m pretty conservative about updating; I waited a full 2 HOURS before installing 11.0! (okay, so those two hours were spent downloading the .iso…). I am particularly interested in running kernel 2.6.27; my wifi card appears to work much better with the new kernel.
Can’t wait! 
Actually, if you are going to stick with one release for a while, I would defintely pick 11.0. I think openSUSE really made a milestone with that release, especially with Yast/zypper. I have 11.0 on my home server and probably won’t upgrade for sometime (maybe 12.0). But for my desktop workstations, I like to have the latest-and-greatest-and-most-uptodatest.
I have pre-ordered the DVD( for the first time, usually download from torrents), this will be installed on the new system I have just built. AMD Phenom 9950( black edition), 2 x 500Gig WD HDD.
Looking forward to getting the box.
Actually I’ll do a combo of downloading the DVD and then turn off all the repos in my 11.1 rc1 install except the DVD and tell it to refresh that.
Then do:
zypper ref
zypper dup
zypper verify
That should get me to 11.1 GM
That will also delete some Packman & vlc rpms
I will turn back on all my 11.1 repos
and get back those rpms it deleted
Then setup the oss. non-oss & update repos and do a major update to catch all I may have missed & any late changes.
Start stuffing apps/packages from there.
I’ll download a pirated DVD from a warez site and download a serial key generator for it. Then, launching the *.exe of the serial key generator, I’ll infect my machine with a nice rootkit.
lol! That’s a good one!
Is it not better to download the delta iso, applydeltaiso to Your RC1 CD and then seed for everyone both the delta and full dvd?? This way You get FULL DVD for the price of a delta rotfl!
As of openSUSE 11.0 Novell NO longer shipped / sold to the Philippines. Hence for the first time in 10 years I did NOT purchase a new version but downloaded the DVD.
Most likely I will do the very same these days with 11.1. Unfortunately this makes it impossible to financially support openSUSE - but I guess Novell has a reason for NOT delivery ( for full payment ) to PH and other South East Asian countries any longer.
Since I install openSUSE sometimes on other people’s system, including hotels and resorts and help others to migrate to Linux, a DVD always is a better choice due to the many disruptions of www connectivity here on the islands.
Download in any form of course is more environment friendly and faster than a week of shipping across the planet.
I would want to donate now and then to openSUSE as a replacement for no longer purchasing, but there appears no paypal donate link on opensuse.org …
- I downloaded the DVD.
- Deleted all the hidden files in /home of my existing installation.
- I installed Opensuse 11.1 leaving the old /home otherwise.
Result, a clean new Opensuse with my old data.
Download the live cd to test the hardware, and the dvd for the clean install.
Don’t forget the add-on cd.
The rest come from repositories.
I used yast2, updated all my repos from 11.0 to 11.1 and selected update all unconditionally and it seems to work.
what I don’t understand is why this is never considered as an optional method of upgrading - I found it much easier to use then zypper dup because it was more convenient to deal with the conflicts found that needed to be resolved before starting the dl’s and install
It’s because not everyone is as fortunate as you when upgrading. It is very easy for configuration files and other miscellaneous items to get mixed up and cause problems that are difficult to track. A lot more changes between releases (even RCs) than package versions.
Obviously, you are free to upgrade as you see fit, but it’s not recommended and you may be greeted with a (small) “I told you so” if you get bit by it.
That said, I have heard several who have done well using this method, so have it your way.
Have a lot of fun!
I downloaded DVD
but I think there are a lot of mistakes 
I would have liked a choice: I will not update and wait at least 3 month to get the bugs fixed.
I downloaded all the versions. But you did forget an important way of distribution: **though magazines with attached DVD. **This kind of promotion is getting always more important because the DVD is reliable, DL and offers full 32/64 bit support.
[RIGHT]Well, I maintain the household of my parents (two desktop PCs (athlon 64 bit) and one Fujitsu Siemens notebook (32bit). The main part of the machines is still on 10.3 and for reason. They work and do the job. [/RIGHT]
I began with SUSE version 6.0. Honestly at the time it was a “hobby”, impossible to use it without loosing hours of time and the overall info on the web was not very “friendly” to not IT people at the time you where treated as “stupid windows changer”. Mentality changes overtime as we know. Since 9.0 it was fairly usable (with 9.3 really good). Since 10.1 I use it on my notebook (with now 11.0 installed and excellent results). While 10.1 was ok and had only an ALSA problem, 10.2 was crap and very buggy. I then decided to install only after a 3 month quarantine period. And I have to say I am right.
My advice would be: never change a winning team. You have a well running version that fits your needs? Stick to it up to en of life!
You have a necessity to have a newer kernel? Read the “most annoying bugs” previous to install! therefore: wait for at least 3 weeks (because that list will get bigger in the first weeks) and then decide if the version fits your needs.
What is a kernel good for with better energy saving on a notebook if you rely on bluetooth and you use K3b every day?
Version 11 is now very mature with a reasonably modern kernel.
I think a lot of people have a “versionitis”. IMHO at least for productive machines a 3 month delay of install seams advisable.