[PSNUG.org News] openSUSE 11 - must read review

[Brandon Fouts]

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The first thing you'll notice about OpenSUSE 11 is the completely renovated
installer program. In fact, I'd have to say that next to Mac, this is
probably the most beautiful installer program I have ever seen. Beauty isn't
just skin deep, however — a lot of time and work has been invested to make
the SUSE installer faster and easier to use. A complete install, with
everything, including GNOME, KDE, XFCE and the development and server
packages — sans the multilingual documentation selected on my ThinkPad T60,
with a 32-bit 1.8Ghz Core Duo and 2GB of RAM took approximately 40 minutes.
That ain't too shabby for a full DVD worth of stuff.

I am also quite impressed with how fast the package repository management
works in the RC1 release. In 10.3, the initial repository setup could take
up to a half an hour, and would frequently bomb out.  Not with 11.0 — a
dozen repos, which include the vast user-contributed
*PACKMAN*<http://packman.links2linux.org/>in Germany as well as the
newly launched OpenSUSE build service, only took a
few minutes to set up. The new software update utility is also significantly
faster and much more stable. For those of you who prefer a command line, the
"*zypper* <http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Usage>" utility will provide a
similar experience to "yum" or "apt-get" on Fedora/Red Hat and
Ubuntu/Debian, respectively.

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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8988


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