10.1 is far better than 10.0

[odiovidio]

I tried installing Suse 10.0 two weeks ago. I had numerous problems with that installation (it was my first time). It seemed like everything I tried failed. In particular:

1. ndiswrapper wouldn't load properly
2. i couldn't here sound
3. all i could see was skwigly lines when i played anything with xine
4. i had problems configuring my wireless usb adapter
5. AND THE BIGGEST THING, IT WAS SLOW.

I installed 10.1 yesterday, and somehow, everything was corrected in this version. It is 10 times faster! and ndiswrapper installed like a charm. All of my driver related issues had worked themselves out.

Good Job on 10.1, Novell!

[bigtomrodney]

That's cool. I'm becoming happier with it now myself the more I settle into it. The only thing I could ask for is a faster boot time, but I'm well aware that currently it's a trade off between functionality/convenience and boot time.

I mean XP boots in twenty odd seconds, albeit with some services backgrounded until after desktop (asynchronous booting), but MacOS X boots from a cold start in less than thirty seconds to a full desktop. I know there are mentions of parallel service starts, and compiled init scripts but I wonder if any of the bigger distros are seriously looking at it. Anyway, I should mention it's not that I have this problem only with SUSE, just that it's been a big complaint of a brand new user who is a friend of mine. With so many new technologies coming around and improvements to the GUI and configuration I would like to see this addressed too.

Have you had any troubles with network-manager and ndiswrapper? I find network-manager to be great. Similar to Kinternet in some ways but some better functionality.

[Weedman]

From your experience, it does sound a hell of a lot better.

I wonder if 10.1 will actually give me a gui this time, considering that 10.0 gave me nothing...

[DThor]

Glad to hear it's working out, but I don't get the "slow" comment. I've been running 9.1/9.3/10 on numerous workstations here and there was absolutely no noticable slowdown when going from 9.3 to 10. I think it must have been specific to a config, hardware or software, that you've been running.

Since upgrading is a big deal here, I haven't seen any tangible reasons for upgrading yet. Maybe 10.2. Everything works absolutely fine with 10.0...although I've heard if you're into wifi there can be troubles.

DT

[sbn]

I do find 10.1 to takes a very long time to boot. Before I got use to it I thought the first couple of times the system was on the verge of crashing.

Strangely for me XGL has worked without a glitch, setup was painless and simple. No editing of any files etc. I took a glance at a few tutorials on how to get XGL going and was a little taken back thinking this was going to be a major task.

On the other hand at times 10.1 seems like an early Windows Vista beta. Nothing major, but numerous little things like menus not showing up. Most annoying is in Firefox, the menu does not appear at times so I can not open up links in another tab.

Not too mention the fact I can not intsall a single *$&#@ item that needs compiling as I get numerous errors of missing items that I know are installed. Sadly the RPMs for some of this software just flake out.

All in all 10.1 has a lot of cute geeky features, yet it is still a long time off from being ready for primetime. I just wish people (devs) would build Linux GUIs to be more stable, ergonomic, and easier to use than adding in stuff like XGL which really is nothing more than a toy.

[Jiraiya-sama]

just, a quick warning about xgl. If you watch video on your system, XGL is not for you. first of all, you will always have combing in your video. second of all, xine (or any video player for that matter) does not play well with xgl, and your system can and sometimes will freeze when going into fullscreen. there are many other glitches with this but ill just leave it at xgl will mar video playback on your system.

[jamel]

Hi

After fedora 4 I'm using suse 10 ,the difference between them is too clear

Suse 10 it is a great software compared to fedora 4 all works nice Xmms ,

Xine and Yast make the rpm installation too amazing .

I have not used suse 10.1 but I'm too glade with suse 10, why should I move

to suse 10.1 ?

[techieMoe]

Well, having finally tried 10.1, I have an opinion on it. I won't go into any detail, as I've already posted said opinion.

[GNOME_n00b]

techieMoe
nice review - i've just read it. looks like you and I agree on this because i've never seen the usefulness of this eye candy lark either. it just seems to be that - nothing more than resource sucking eye candy which slows my PC down slightly, amongst other things:

XGL is a neat idea, but it has yet to be demonstrated as anything other than resource-sucking eye candy

i switched off all special effects not long after i first played with it. for about an hour, i was like "wow! hey, thats neat!". not long after that i was like "hmmm whats the benefit to my usability with this? its nice and all that, but it doesn't make my desktop experience any better. if anything, it makes it worse because my PC slows down marginally and the fade in/out of the menus etc can be a bit annoying after a while". not long after that, i was like "sod this!", and switched the annoying eye candy off.

[redbeard]

TechieMoe, in your review you said someone gave you the CD you needed to install all of the missing stuff you needed. Do you know where that image was downloaded from? I didn't see a link in the review. I'd like to try 10.1 over the long weekend.