SUSE Linux 10.1 Screenshot Tour 62
An anonymous reader writes "Distrowatch reports - Following some eight months of testing, the openSUSE project has finally released the long-delayed and much-awaited SUSE Linux 10.1: 'After lot of work and several delays, we proudly announce the availability of SUSE Linux 10.1. As usual, we ship all the latest open source packages available at the time. We want to give special mention to Xgl for 3D acceleration on the desktop, NetworkManager for getting painless WiFi access everywhere, the completely open source AppArmor 2.0, and the full integration of Xen 3 in YaST.'
OSDir has some great screenshots of the fresh SUSE Linux in the SUSE Linux 10.1 Screenshot Tour."
Looks nice! (Score:4, Informative)
Nice simple clean theme unified across KDE & Gnome, the install, the boot screen [osdir.com], partition manager, etc. They all look the same & really pretty nice.
Good job Suse!
Oh - and this release includes XGL - if anyone wants to have a look at what it looks like - check out this video [youtube.com] (I think it's Suse 10, but with lots of extra's included in 10.1) - man it looks nice!
Re:Looks nice! (Score:2)
I guess you posted as AC 'cause you knew how terribly ignorant you were going to look hey?
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Re:Looks nice! (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Looks nice! (Score:3, Insightful)
Yup - that is the most immediately useful functionality!
But I disagree with you that Alpha transparency isn't useful - it's just that it's does not do anything useful in Windows.
Re:Looks nice! (Score:2)
Re:Looks nice! (Score:2)
Thanks - I do
The API in windows is a bit hard to get to, so a lot of people don't use it!
I think translucency can be useful in a windowing envionment can be good when it's used well. I'd like to see larger mice pointers that are translucent, sometimes I can't see the trash properly when I'm dragging large items into it - would be nice if the items were translucent.
Also - I sometimes run a music player that likes to sit on top of all other wi
Re:Looks nice! (Score:2)
Come on... it's GNOME and KDE, and both still look like something out of 1998.
That blasted image viewer (Score:3, Insightful)
Add a JS image swap script, keep the current linking as it is (to appease the usability poo-flingers), and save bandwidth!
That said, Suse looks nice!
Re:That blasted image viewer (Score:2, Insightful)
If however you want to do the above and , while doing so, make some money from advertising, you would make damn sure every view of a screenshot generates $blah banner views.
Re:That blasted image viewer (Score:1)
Re:That blasted image viewer (Score:2)
Re:That blasted image viewer (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Dissapointed with Suse (Score:2)
Re:Dissapointed with Suse (Score:1, Flamebait)
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Re:Dissapointed with Suse (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Dissapointed with Suse (Score:1, Interesting)
To be frank, I do not see where the parent poster has backed up his arguments. "bloated and over engineered"? How? Is SuSE slower than other distros? Does it consume more memory? More disk space? They should "dumb it down" a bit... How? It is a problem of the number of applications installed? The number of options in the menus? The selection of applications that should be changed to include simple
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Re:Dissapointed with Suse (Score:1)
apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r)
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
and can be done in Synaptic where you can click your way through
NetworkManager vs. dhcpcd (Score:4, Informative)
Now with NetworkManager, I can wardrive again! Thank God for NetworkManager!
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Multilingual background (Score:2)
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Re:Multilingual background (Score:3, Insightful)
JDS was quite a disappointment for me. Over a year ago, we were testing it alongside RedHat and Gentoo and we were amazed at the lack of polish of JDS. I mean, a company with the size and expertise of Sun could very easily devote some effort to make its Linux distro not look like some half-finished college project. I wasn't surprised when they killed the project.
Cheers,
M
I've always found Suse to be a nice distro, but... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I've always found Suse to be a nice distro, but (Score:2)
Re:I've always found Suse to be a nice distro, but (Score:1)
now i call yast Yet Another sucky Setup Tool
i truelly hope they've improved it because albeit it looks nice
Re:I've always found Suse to be a nice distro, but (Score:2, Informative)
GNOME 2.12 !? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:GNOME 2.12 !? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:GNOME 2.12 !? (Score:3, Informative)
Novell will be using Gnome as the default on SLES and Novell Linux Desktop but the KDE libraries will be be supplied on both as well.
Re:GNOME 2.12 !? (Score:2)
God, I hope so! My heart sank when I loaded the first image and saw the two little footprints in the lower left corner.
Sorry if this comes off as flamebait, but I've tried a variety of environments and Gnome is the one I've liked the least. KDE is my favorite, even among other OSs (I've never liked the Mac UI, and OSX just added a few more things I don't like).
Re:GNOME 2.12 !? (Score:2)
I've always wondered about SUSE, (Score:1)
Re:I've always wondered about SUSE, (Score:1)
Re:I've always wondered about SUSE, (Score:2)
Re:I've always wondered about SUSE, (Score:1)
I can imagine that vivaolinux members are slightly more technical than average too, but even with all that in mind it's kind of surprising to see Slack
Re:I've always wondered about SUSE, (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I've always wondered about SUSE, (Score:2)
That is like saying Mandrake/Mandriva is a KDE version of RedHat, which is was many moons ago.
Things change. Things fork and grow.
Re:I've always wondered about SUSE, (Score:2)
No, it's like saying Mandrake/Mandriva was originally a KDE version of RedHat! I know past & present tense is a tough thing to grasp... but hang in there!
Re:I've always wondered about SUSE, (Score:4, Insightful)
Novell are doing something similar to fedora with openSUSE, i.e. an opensource-only version that's community driven, with commercial/boxed retail versions being spun off that includes licenced and closed-source components such as codecs and java.
SuSE was my preferred distro for some time, but it was always a pain to update to newer app versions when they updated to a new version bump - the only way I found was to cough up for an upgrade DVD, or wait months for the free ftp version. Now they've got a truly open-source version (including a GPL YAST) with free updates as well as security patches, I've been looking at them again for boxes that don't need the configurability of gentoo.
Nice for laptop (Score:4, Informative)
So it's with great joy I have to say that I've been working with SuSE 10.1RC3 for a couple of weeks now and it really IS very nice. I have a brand new laptop: Acer 5612, Dual Core, NVidia 3D card, etc.
In hours I got everything working, *including* Xgl which is nice.
Special thanks to the MPlayer guys who installed the video codecs on it at Linuxtag in Wiesbaden.
Hey, I'm even starting to like Gnome. Who would have though it possible on SuSE?
Cheers,
Matt
Re:Nice for laptop (Score:2)
I had the opposite problem, ubuntu beta wouldn't install properly on my laptop, but once I tricked the installer (somehow) it runs great :)
First, I installed and told it to use the whole disk. It fucked it up. Then I tried to manually partition. It kept failing to recognize partitions I'd made, and trashing their partition types. About the third time I rebooted, ran the installer, and partitioned, it worked - after partitioning twice in the same installer session.
Of course, it's a beta, so I'm not bi
Dissapointed (Score:1, Insightful)
In a way articles like these clearly show that Linux is getting to a level where people can indeed focus on looks and decide on that instead
Please! (Score:2)
Scroll down, scroll right, click... scroll down, scroll right, click...
And, yes, I'm running beyond 1024x768.
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Cumbersome Install (Score:3, Insightful)
An install should consist of:
1. Create users.
2. Would like me to create the partitions for you? (offer an advanced feature as well)
3. Are you going to use DHCP, or a static address?
4. Would you like to review the software that is going to be installed?
5. Click next to complete.
That's it.
Those who created the OS should know the apps that 95% of computer users use. A web browser (with plugins pre-installed), an e-mail reader, multimedia apps, games, OpenOffice, and of course, the hardware correctly probed and installed. The security settings should be reasonable, and the first set of updates should be applied automatically.
Once the PC is up, take users to a Welcome screen, and ask if they would like to setup automatic updates, install additional software, and point them to an FAQ, or let them know how to get help.
Suse does many of these things right, but bombarding the user with so many questions during the install makes an intimidating first impression that turns users off.
Re:Cumbersome Install (Score:4, Informative)
1. Create users.
2. Would like me to create the partitions for you? (offer an advanced feature as well)
3. Are you going to use DHCP, or a static address?
4. Would you like to review the software that is going to be installed?
5. Click next to complete.
That's pretty much how the Suse install has been since I first installed it in late 1999. I have a hard time believing those screenshots are an accurate representation of the process (and several of them a just loading screens, btw).
Re:Cumbersome Install (Score:2)
You can go back and forth on too complicated or too simple
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How many graphic cards work with XGL (Score:1)
Re:How many graphic cards work with XGL (Score:2)
LOL, Why Screenshots of KDE and Gnome????? (Score:1)
Looks great except... (Score:2)