Hey jemate18:
> And the
> experience was… being bashed…
Sorry about that. We try to encourage everyone to be friendly and
helpful, but sometimes… [shrug]. Welcome here…and I hope you
get all the info you are looking for. Hopefully no matter how much
information exists elsehwere, you’ll feel free to post a question here
WITHOUT feeling the need to spend three days searching first so you
don’t get flamed. 
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Kim (2/12/2009 10:03:47 AM Mountain)
> WITHOUT feeling the need to spend three days searching first so you
> don’t get flamed.
how about 3 minutes?
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have fun
I takes me at least 10 minutes to figure out the %#$@^$#&#^@ captcha so I can search… 
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:26:01 +0000, msrourke wrote:
> have fun;1943519 Wrote:
>>
>> how about 3 minutes?
>>
>>
> I takes me at least 10 minutes to figure out the %#$@^$#&#^@ captcha so
> I can search… 
Just log in = problem solved. 
Jim
Hey I just figured out I am not logging on automatically like I do with other forums… :shame:
Thanks…
Some sites that gives openSUSE 11.1 features.
OpenSUSE 11.1 - openSUSE
openSUSE 11.1 from Novell
Featurelist 11.1 - openSUSE
A blog reviewing openSUSE 11.1, covering 11 features.
11 Prime Features of openSUSE 11.1 - A Comprehensive Review
If anyone has anymore, please add to. This is all I could find with out getting redundant.
Again, my apologies for my initial reply.
Hey Jim Henderson:
> Just log in = problem solved.
Yup…there’s a lot of tips/tricks to using these forums and that’s
definitely one of them.
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Kim (2/12/2009 12:51:15 PM Mountain)
Hey Jonathan R:
> Again, my apologies for my initial reply.
Thanks. On behalf of the openSUSE forums [trumpets blowing fanfare] I
officially reinstate you to the few…the chosen…the openSUSE
community.
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Kim (2/12/2009 2:15:02 PM Mountain)
Hi Jim,
After reading your comment regarding my answer to your post and see the word “idiot” and by gogling I found a definition from answer.com which states like this:
1.A foolish or stupid person.
2.A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
Reading the last part of the definition my first impression is to engage in an argument but after the strong waves blown me away and the pleasant but cold north wind blows gently I re-examined and look to the past things that transpired with me lurking in this friendly forum and said to myself, hey at 55 a younger smart fellow at last kick you to wake on your sanity. Your criticism harsh it may be is taken by me positively and I wanted to extend my apologies to the whole opensuse forum community especially to those members with thread that probably I have thrown an offensive joke that unknown to me got hurt in the process.
Regards,
conram
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:46:01 +0000, msrourke wrote:
> hendersj;1943546 Wrote:
>>
>>
>> Just log in = problem solved.
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>> Jim
>
> Hey I just figured out I am not logging on automatically like I do with
> other forums… :shame:
>
> Thanks…
Not a problem - glad to help out.
Jim
The things that make SUSE so great is YAST, one click install on a lot of items, and the quality of the build.
That, and Lizards rock…
6: A bewilderingly attractive mix of uppER and lOWer CaSES. By the time version 12 is out, we’re hoping it’ll have been renamed o4enS0S6.
L33T! rotfl!
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:46:01 +0000, DistortedHumor wrote:
> The things that make SUSE so great is YAST, one click install on a lot
> of items, and the quality of the build.
>
> That, and Lizards rock…
I can either take or leave YaST, but the one-click install stuff is
pretty useful.
Jim
> “rs3york” <rs3york@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote in
> message news:rs3york.3nh8wn@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org…
>
> openSUSE the OS (I guess that would be “oS the OS” for
> short wouldn’t it? Sorry, moving along…)
openSUSE the open source operating system would be “oS the OS OS”.
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AZC
Hey jemate18,
… wecome to our forum.
Reference openSUSE’s unique features, I suspect one can get very subjective answers to that. I believe those of us who are openSUSE fans, all have our own different reasons for using openSUSE, and so no two openSUSE users will answer that the same. After all, Linux is Linux, and if one spends enough time on any one Linux distribution, there is IMHO a reasonable chance that one will be able to tune that Linux distribution the way they want.
The things that I like about openSUSE (in comparision to other distributions) are:
a. YaST - this is a GUI for configuring many aspects of openSUSE. No other distribution has such a comprehensive tool. And users typically either HATE this gui, or they really like the GUI (although some are ambivalent). In my case, I really like it.
b. KDE desktop implementation. Initially SuSE, and now openSUSE, have always been (IMHO) a leader in the implementation of the KDE desktop. While it was noted above that openSUSE’s KDE-4.1.3 implementation is pretty good, IMHO the older openSUSE-11.1 KDE-3.5.10 is still the best KDE implementation around, bar none. Having typed that, I think KDE4 has a lot of promise, and especially with KDE-4.2 (which is NOT available out of the box yet for openSUSE, but can be updated to that via the build service) has come along way, … but KDE-3.5.10 still has the lead for features.
c. the openSUSE community. We have a good community. Sometimes a bit feisty, … sometimes critical, but almost always helpful in one way or another. In particular I like the forums and irc-chat, but there are also the list servers. You can read more here: Communicate - openSUSE
d. the Packman packagers. These are a group of openSUSE users, who take applications coded by various Linux developers, and package them specifically for openSUSE. In particular, the packages packaged by the Packman packagers provide openSUSE capabilities with 3rd party multimedia (and proprietary codecs) applications that do not come “out of the box” with openSUSE. If it were not for the Packman packagers, I would not be an openSUSE user. PackMan :: home
e. the openSUSE build service. This has the potential, as it is used more as a basis for further openSUSE projects, to keep openSUSE as one of the main Linux distributions. You can read more here: Build Service - openSUSE In essence, it means that it will be easier for Linux software to be packaged for openSUSE, and that one need not have only the Packman packagers for 3rd party rpms, but rather a much larger amount of 3rd party packaged Linux packages/applications will now be available, packaged specifically for openSUSE.
openSUSE differs from some other distributions in terms of its package management, and also in terms of its efforts to closely follow the opensoure free software movement. In particular, the latter aspect irritates a lot of new (and current) users, as it means that proprietary drivers (even if price free) and proprietary codecs (even if price free) are not included with openSUSE (because they are not free in terms of the opensource free software foundation definition of “free” ) . Hence one can some times have difficulty installing openSUSE due to one needing proprietary drivers, which are not packaged in the basic boxed set of openSUSE. However typically the openSUSE community try to help, and one can post and get guidance on such aspects.
Here is a link to a basic openSUSE concepts page:
Build Service - openSUSE
Good luck and best wishes to you in your Linux efforts, no matter what distribution you end up prefering.
for me the real reason im transitioning all my computers from ubuntu to opensuse is because of YaST and SAX.
last time i used opensuse was 10.2 and i wasnt to impressed with the speed of it. i tried it again and i am amazed at the speed increase, its amazing now.
but now i need to get new stickers and a new hat. anyone know where i can get opensuse stickers and a new beanie?
Look here The openSUSE Shop
Andy
YaST is OK. At least to start with. When I started in SUSE years ago, YaST was great. Now I find it irritates me. Especially sax2. I find sax2 is good to start with, but it’s guesses at video configuration are generic and really should be treated as a starting point. The problem is the sax2 comments xorg.conf saying don’t edit. I generally uninstall sax2. I like the concept of YaST. I just wish it did a better job. I am refering to YaST as a whole, not limiting it to sax2. Sax2 is just one tool in YaST. For a n00b though, YaST is great.