Hi, Everyone,
I thought I’d introduce myself. I’m an avid Linux user, have been strictly using Linux for personal use the last two years with the exception of work-related development projects. Until now, I’ve been using solely Fedora/Gnome (my desktop runs Fedora 10); but I bought a new notebook and Fedora’s updates kept horking it up, so I’m branching out.
I guess you could say I’m a Baby SUSE user as I only finished the installation this morning before I left for work; it’ll take some getting used to, I think, after being relatively entrenched in Fedora’s world.
I work as a software developer. I spent three years doing application development and now I’m in Web/.NET dev. I do a lot of tinkering on various personal projects as well; I’m a self-taught developer and try to keep from limiting my focus to anything in particular.
If you’ve not fallen asleep by now, thanks for reading.
With respect to repositories, I typically recommend new users stick with only OSS, Non-OSS, Update, and Packman and not add any others (to avoid dependency problems between repositories). [Note OSS, Non-OSS, and Update are Novell/SuSE-GmbH official repos, and “Packman” is a 3rd party repos with lots of multimedia, codecs … etc ]. Your being more advanced you may be able to ignore that, but be careful with the repos you add. The testing for rpms from repos other than those 4 is problematic. For example, there are known cases where rpms from videolan will cause rpms from Packman to stop functioning (typically due to codecs in different locations) with no dependency warnings.
Hey, thanks for the links!
I’ve been spending the last few hours since I’ve been home working on the wonderful task of getting the SUSE Gnome Desktop to resemble my Fedora Gnome one, getting some of the software I use, etc.
I’m not entirely sure I like the desktop (it’s the default SUSE installation) set up this way, but I’ve only been using it for a few hours. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time.
I just wanted to say thanks for the pointers, guys.
I stayed with KDE 3.5.10 because it’s the best of its breed, anywhere. I have tried the gnome of openSUSE and would happily use it as a main DE (at least it’s not brown). When I get around to KDE 4.x, I am sure it will also be a great experience. Indeed “spoiled for choice” comes to mind;).
