Should I reinstall suse11.1 or10.3

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#1

Now it is time to ask the final question an you should I reinstall
Suse11.1 or 10.3?:|.

Could you please be so kind and give me hand?

Mike

#2

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 22:46 +0000, 1michael1 wrote:
> Now it is time to ask the final question an you should I reinstall
> Suse11.1 or 10.3?:|.

That’s easy… 11.1. If you want at least some support for
awhile.

Personally, I use 11.1, KDE 3.5… avoids a lot of mess…

>
> Could you please be so kind and give me hand?
>
> Mike
>
>

#3

either will be ok (ok defined as stable, usable, dependable and fast)
as long as you:

  • do not install Beagle

  • do not install KDE4

  • do not enable desktop effects

  • do not spend the first 40 hours after the install adding CPU
    grabbing eye candy as fast as you can…

instead, take your time…

after the initial install, just use the machine a while the way it is
born…use Firefox to take a walk around the web…email some
friends…use OpenOffice to do some homework…

then, when you see it seems to be doing ok…then add the multimedia
stuff and listen to some music…

etc…

if, after a several days of consistently good boots and delightful
experiences on the web–THEN, if you must try the fancy stuff just do
ONE thing (like, enable desktop effects) and use it a while (while
defined as SEVERAL hours and either a nights sleep and cold boot, or
power down/hibernate and re-life) before you do ANYthing else…

approaching a system that way will let you see WHERE the problems
come from…

–
assistant

#4

11.0 and 11.1 work fine, if you take the above suggestions to heart.

Useless crap out the window and it’ll be fine. We have a guy at the office who is running 4.2 in a production system nowadays and seems to be happy with it.

#5

11.1 for the kernel and KDE 3.5.10 for the stability. I run KDE 4.2 and am generally happy with it. No serious issues. You can use them both together as well. 3.5 for stability and in some cases features and 4.2 for keeping up with the times. I like 4.2 but some programs have more functionality in their 3.5 versions then in the 4 ports.

#6

If you have an Nvidia card and plan to use the closed source driver, then don’t try to install 11.1 at the moment as the driver is new and there is no kernel to match it!

#7

Hi
Just install the ‘Hard Way’ with the download, then your independent of
any repository issues. It does require your to have the kernel-source,
kernel-syms, make, gcc and module-init-tools installed. I have been
running 180.29 for a few weeks now.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
up 20:07, 2 users, load average: 0.46, 0.28, 0.26
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 180.29

#8

I did not erase Suse11.1 32bit,I`m using LiveCD64bit.
I will erase it soon because it is bad.
But I will listen do what you saying.

Thank you that is the best tip ;).

Danke vielmals

Bis bald

Michael (BRD)

#9

> I did not erase Suse11.1 32bit,I`m using LiveCD64bit.
> I will erase it soon because it is bad.
> But I will listen do what you saying.

and listen to this:

  • do not install from a LiveCD (always from an md5sum checked DVD)

  • do not install 64 bit UNLESS your machine has more than 4 Gigs of
    RAM and you routinely process HUGE photos or run a database with a
    million (no kidding) data points…

–
assistant

#10

Before I installed opensuse11.1 I didnt checked with md5sum,but it works. So hmmmm I dont use huge of database or huge 50mb of photos.I believe I can use 1gb or 2gb of ram that must be ok is it?:
Now it is good time or little later is the best time to get new computer hardware because of bad times,if I need hardware.

mike

#11

@ assistant

You told me do not enable desktop effects
could you please be so kind explain me or show me the way,please.

I appreccciate you for helping me out;).

Mike