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15-09-2008, 11:41 AM	#1 (permalink)
a_k_s_h_a_y Wise Old Owl Join Date: May 2007 Location: bangalore Posts: 1,923	Moving to OpenSuse ! Am using ubuntu, but am bored of it. Thinking of opensuse !! am just worried about yast and repos available ! does it also have all software easily available just like ubuntu's synaptic ??????? Does the DVD Provide an out of the box experience ?? unlike ubuntu needed ATI graphics and ALSA Driver Install and also of course the multimedia plugins and codecs. and guys any fast servers from where i can download opensuse ?? at full 2Mbps I basically want to spend least time on Sys Admin task and save my precious time and be more productive and get the job done....!! hence looking for an out of the box linux ! Compiling software for install is a big over head. __________________ Sony Ericsson Flashing, Modding, Patching, Hacking And More ! http://www.akshayy.com/sonyericsson/ Last edited by a_k_s_h_a_y; 15-09-2008 at 11:46 AM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

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15-09-2008, 01:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
damked Right Off the Assembly Line Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 31	Re: Moving to OpenSuse ! Good Decision. The Open SUSE DVD provided by Digit is really great. You may have some issues while playing Videos since all codecs are not supplied. But that can be easily rectified by installing mplayer and its GUI kmplayer. Yast by default has good collection of repositiries. But I will suggest you to add repository from www.packman.org also.

15-09-2008, 05:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
drsethi In The Zone Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Amritsar Posts: 220	Re: Moving to OpenSuse ! Opensuse is great for new and experienced users alike. Easy to install and upgrade. Multimedia support comes handy at http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia

15-09-2008, 05:47 PM	#4 (permalink)
Garbage God of Mistakes... Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pune, Maharashtra Posts: 1,923	Re: Moving to OpenSuse ! It's good decision !! __________________ Registered Linux User #468778 ---------------------------------- http://twitter.com/_Garbage_

15-09-2008, 06:03 PM	#5 (permalink)
a_k_s_h_a_y Wise Old Owl Join Date: May 2007 Location: bangalore Posts: 1,923	Re: Moving to OpenSuse ! hmmmm ok !! Where to download from??? Apart from Torrent ?? do you guys know any FAST HTTP or FTP ?? __________________ Sony Ericsson Flashing, Modding, Patching, Hacking And More ! http://www.akshayy.com/sonyericsson/

15-09-2008, 06:32 PM	#6 (permalink)
Garbage God of Mistakes... Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pune, Maharashtra Posts: 1,923	Re: Moving to OpenSuse ! Download OpenSuSE 11 from here And OpenSuSE default mirrors are fast enough. __________________ Registered Linux User #468778 ---------------------------------- http://twitter.com/_Garbage_

15-09-2008, 06:33 PM	#7 (permalink)
a_k_s_h_a_y Wise Old Owl Join Date: May 2007 Location: bangalore Posts: 1,923	Re: Moving to OpenSuse ! really >? that's good news. something wrong on my end then. will try again today night at 2AM the download speed that i get is very slow. as slow as 8KBps... today morning...!! __________________ Sony Ericsson Flashing, Modding, Patching, Hacking And More ! http://www.akshayy.com/sonyericsson/

15-09-2008, 06:44 PM	#8 (permalink)
aditya.shevade Console Junkie Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: USA Posts: 991	Re: Moving to OpenSuse ! ^^ I am on 256kbps connection and downloaded SUSE at the day of release. I was getting ~28kBps constant... the servers are fast. My experience, use Australia mirrors... they are fast. __________________ --- Console Junkie

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15-09-2008, 07:28 PM

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Re: Moving to OpenSuse !

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Am using ubuntu, but am bored of it.
Thinking of opensuse !! am just worried about yast and repos available ! does it also have all software easily available just like ubuntu's synaptic ???????

I feel software selection is less than Ubuntu's, but good.

You will need these repositories
http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories
OSS
Non-OSS
Update

http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_Ya...e_Repositories
Packman
VLC

If you install KDE
http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Repositories

If you install GNOME
http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories

If you want Virtualisation
http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...n:/VirtualBox/

Other Repos in the links mentioned above for special needs. In all the above repos click on mirrors, and in that look for the mirror with the score 100 or above. I usually use the unixheads mirror or mirrorservice.org mirror (UK mirror service).

Also refer, for offline mass installs
OpenSuSE 11.0 & 11.1 Packages+Dependencies June 2008

And this, for information on SUSE rpm installs, written for 10.3 but it's similar for 11.0
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87650

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Does the DVD Provide an out of the box experience ??

NO

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unlike ubuntu needed ATI graphics

http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_Ya..._Video_drivers

But refer Ati How to in that and they say that the official site has better drivers??

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and guys any fast servers from where i can download opensuse ?? at full 2Mbps

Use Bittorent

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I basically want to spend least time on Sys Admin task and save my precious time and be more productive and get the job done....!! hence looking for an out of the box linux !
Compiling software for install is a big over head.

Out of the box?? OpenSUSE comes with SUN JRE, acrobat reader (acroread), and flash plugin. I do not know if any other out of th ebox features are bundled, certainly not NVidia or ATi drivers, or codecs. You'll have to install them from the repos above

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Last edited by NucleusKore; 15-09-2008 at 07:47 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

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15-09-2008, 07:36 PM	#10 (permalink)
Garbage God of Mistakes... Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pune, Maharashtra Posts: 1,923	Re: Moving to OpenSuse ! lol... nice... __________________ Registered Linux User #468778 ---------------------------------- http://twitter.com/_Garbage_

15-09-2008, 07:43 PM	#11 (permalink)
a_k_s_h_a_y Wise Old Owl Join Date: May 2007 Location: bangalore Posts: 1,923	Re: Moving to OpenSuse ! thanks man for that...!! doing the opensuse hopefully tomorrow or day after as soon as am done with the download...!! __________________ Sony Ericsson Flashing, Modding, Patching, Hacking And More ! http://www.akshayy.com/sonyericsson/

15-09-2008, 08:16 PM	#12 (permalink)
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