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When idling, KDE 4.3 on 11.2 uses about2.5 times as much RAM as 11.1 running KDE 4.3. Seriously, with the same settings, 11.2 uses 800 MB when 11.1 used around 350 MB. KDE 4 offers no productivity improvement over KDE 3 so what is all the extra RAM waste going towards? Anyway, is there something running by default that shouldn’t be?
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Webpin is broken, it can’t find anything. Is there a fix for one of the highlighted new features?
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Packages like snort, libnids, ettercap, etc are no longer in any of the default repos. Are there any new repos that have sprung up to correct this terrible mistake?
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Is the video card and monitor functionality in YAST supposed to be missing? I also thought that they merged redundant functionality such as software management and online update. You can do the exact same thing in both.
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The Yast “mascot” is retarded looking, how do I get rid of it? OK, minor issue but when so much is lacking, adding unneeded stuff is truly an insult.
I’ve just looked on 11.2 KDE 4.3.1 desktop, and the “memory hogs” are the usual suspects, Firefox & X server (though remember it’s pages are shared), followed by plasma desktop, kget & mozilla helper. Machine’s been up almost 24 hours, I rebooted only 8 hours after initial install, because I wanted to change disk partition, to torrent the DVD iso’s once they were released.
Just after 11.1, some similar complaints were made. In the release notes it explains how to turn off semantic desktop. Or you managed to install beagle.
You can use top(1) and sort on the RES field, to find what process are occupying most physical memory.
- Packages like snort, libnids, ettercap, etc are no longer in any of the default repos. Are there any new repos that have sprung up to correct this terrible mistake?
Software.openSUSE.org (available from get software link on project home page) finds snort-2.8.5.1-1.1 in the “server.monitoring” OBS project.
- Is the video card and monitor functionality in YAST supposed to be missing? I also thought that they merged redundant functionality such as software management and online update. You can do the exact same thing in both.
Release notes discussed this. Xorg auto configures now, you only need sax2 if auto-configuration by X server wasn’t satisfactory.
Merging Online update & Software Management UI’s would likely overwhelm new users. If you want to update in Software Manager, you can look at ‘patches’, and there’s still option to Update All in there.
I am very glad, there’s multiple ways to do the update, as I like choice, sometimes I use Software Manager, Others the Updater Applet, and others, I simply type “zypper up”.
- The Yast “mascot” is retarded looking, how do I get rid of it? OK, minor issue but when so much is lacking, adding unneeded stuff is truly an insult.
Hmmm, the icon in the Krunner ‘Computer’ menu, you have too much time if such things worry you.
I’m sure there’s a way to choose another icon, if you look into KDE menu config.
RAWR! >:(
****, that is scary! 
I should have defined idling, that means nothing extra is running. i.e. The configuration right after boot, so no Firefox or anything like that.
I should have done more than just scan the release notes, sorry about that. I guess that means it is a good idea to not have automatic configuration running during install. Two steps forward, one step back.
I eventually found the package with snort via the build service. I found ettercap and a few other programs in the 11.0 build service, it complains about a missing libpcap.0.so file, but doing a cp libpcap.1.so libpcap.0.so seems to have fixed the issue.
Hopefully webpin will work in the not to distant future.
I am not sure where to put this, but there is an issue with older eclipse versions in 11.2, it starts but all you get is an empty window. This link has the easy fix: Eclipse 3.4 on openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3 launch problem. « Ricardo Varas’ Blog
I like the new icon :disapointed: