So I’ve tried openSUSE beta 11.0 / 11.1 beta1, beta2, beta5 in the hopes that my Intel 4965AGN wireless would work.
Beta 1, 2 didn’t do anything… they were pretty much the same to me as openSUSE 11.0. However beta 5 has impressed me, my wireless works! Not to mention my touchpad isn’t configured as 70% of it functioning als vertical scroll anymore… but it’s actually useable now, I even got the most right part functioning as scroll by default.
Hardware is all working properly, yast giving me some timeouts on the OSS and non-OSS repository but I assume these will be back to normal soon. Just installed the latest beta drivers from NVidia and it’s the first time KDE4 feels fast.
New default wallpaper looks pretty **** sexy and the network plasmoid looks promising, but it’s alpha quality instead of beta imo :P. Can’t save my WPA-PSK making it completely useless not to mention it’s unreadable in any theme other than the default aya. Time to install compiz-fusion/emerald and sex things up a bit and I think I’ll be able to not reboot to vista anymore (depends on wether my now working wireless will also work with the WPA-enterprise enviroment at college).
Thank you openSUSE developers, beta 5 is looking good! And if that network plasmoid is working properly by the time 11.1 final is out I’d say it’s gonna be appriciated by a ton of people.