That's really a nice review brother...
From your review it is clear that openSuSE 10.2 still have many bugs which needs to be fixed. Also the boot menu surprise is also a bug I think. After reading your review i have changed my mind and will wait for the next version of openSuSE. Until then I will experiment with Fedora and Ubuntu. BTW their is no such problem with sound on my system(Fedora). i have already installed 4 OSs on my system and now I am looking for a new HDD for trying out all those flavours of Linux

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