As for the Broadcom card, the b43 driver is fantastic, it beats the pants off ndiswrapper, and is extremely easy to get working.
If you can’t connect to the network to run the firmware installer (sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware), send me a PM and I’ll send you a free gift to make it simple ;).
Oh, and the SUSE/Novell team invented Compiz, so yes you will get desktop effects if you want them!
I think this depends on the user. There is absolutely NO WAY I could survive with 15gb on my desktop PC. But I am getting by with 15gb (for openSUSE-10.3) on the family laptop and 15gb (for openSUSE-10.2) on my mother’s PC.
The considerations are, how many 3rd party applications do you like to install? The more 3rd party apps, the quicker the 15gb gets used up. I have hundreds of 3rd party apps on my PC, and I use a lot of space. But I limit the apps on our laptop and I limit the apps on my mother’s PC.
Another issue is how recent is the openSUSE version? If the openSUSE version just came out, its likely there will be many future kernel updates. Unless one cleans up afterward, kernel updates consume many megabytes of hard drive space, with documentation files, and other files, that are not removed when a new kernel is applied (one has to make an extra effort here to keep clean).
Also, … do you want to keep a copy of every installed rpm? That will also consume a lot of space (if you don’t offload those rpms). … By defaults rpms are NOT kept, … but in my case, I like to keep every rpm, as it is useful when trying to track down incompatibility problems with different application versions …
Also, do you have another NTFS or VFAT partition, that you can mount as a /home/user/data partition, to store various data/music/video/picture files?
IMHO, it really boils down to your philosophy, and how you maintain your system.
Unless one cleans up afterward, kernel updates consume many megabytes of hard drive space, with documentation files, and other files, that are not removed when a new kernel is applied (one has to make an extra effort here to keep clean).
Note the installation DVD is also your rescue DVD. So if you can’t keep the DVD permanently, make a HIGH QUALITY copy of it, … which means a copy on a high quality DVD media, burned at the slowest speed possible on a good DVD burner. Verify the burn afterward!
If your PC is 64-bit, you should be given a choice between 32-bit and 64-bit. For newbies I always recommend 32-bit. Note also that KDE-4.0.x on the installation DVD is buggy (its not up to 4.1 quality, and even the recently released KDE-4.1 (released 29-July) IMHO still needs more development to have all the features of KDE-3.5.9). So if you are leaving Gnome to try KDE, I would recommend KDE-3.5.9.
As soon as you finish your installation, and have both your graphics (GUI) and Internet function, the very next thing you MUST (IMHO) do is setup your software repositories. I recommend OSS, NON-OSS, Update, and Packman, and NO MORE! (You can always add more later, when you understand better the side affects/implications). There is guidance on how to do that here: Repositories/11.0 - openSUSE-Community
as you can see in the image… there are no minize/maximize buttons
i’m using humanoid-osx-black theme for this
i installed awn… but it doesnt start during boot time
java not recognized as a plugin by Opera ( i’m unable to locate plugins folder of firefox )
the display settings applet always loads after boot… even after repeated removal from the panel
shutting down the lid of my laptop… and openning it back… the system does not respond… need to restart forcibly… ( ive set the option to blank screen under power management )
apart from this… i’m also using mac-osx-theme-for-debian icon set and slickness gtk2+ theme
not being an ntfs user ( pure linux in my house,including kids computers ) ,but, make sure ntfs-3g is installed,& i do believe there is a tutorial somewhere on the forum for using ntfs-3g, you may have to search for it
You are far better off starting a separate thread for each of your problems, with a well chosen “title” that summarizes your problem technically, so that the experts in that area will see the problem title, and read the post. Any other approach is IMHO hit-and-miss in trying to get good support.
Hmm! How do you change the sub-routines of a boy, Christine? I must be awfully lucky cos I got 114 gig to play with in my PC:D! Judging how openSUSE ran amuck when I first used it, I guesss my PC is a vast playground - wait till I load my music and videos on it that will shrink it a bit (only 20 gig so far) hehe!
