10.3rc1 - 64 bit

[bigtomrodney]

Alright, so the new rig is built. I've mentioned a few times that I was upgrading to a quad core, with 2GB of RAM and an nVidia 8600GT. It all went great, a bit of messing to get the sata_nv module to load so I could actually boot it but all in all the improvement was amazing.

So I saw that the release candidate for SUSE is out. Going back to my old philosophy of 'install the RC, update later and avoid the slow download on release day' I decided to go for it. Not only that, but since most of the win32 codecs aren't needed anymore there is very little to keep me on the 32 bit version. So there it is. 64 bit openSUSE10.3.

The new Quad ran really well under 10.2. The speed was incredible and I was multitasking like I was running a mainframe. Under 10.3 I'm a little put out. The application speed if anything is better, there are great new features like YaST Metapackage handling to allow things like all of your codecs to be installed with one click. So all good so far?

Eh, no. Applications take forever to load. I timed Firefox at 14 seconds for startup. Once it's up it's the fastest I've ever seen it.Totem, Gnome-Terminal....it doesn't matter what they all take an age to load.

My first thoughts were maybe something wrong with my config or maybe the throughput on my drive had dropped(bad format, disks failing, whatever). However I scrapped my old config that was carried over and I can read files on the disks without any trouble - even the large ones.

Has anyone got any ideas? If it's a case that I should try 32bit I think I'd rather try a different distro. It's not performance, just application launch and I would think that this PC should be enough to handle anything I throw at it.

All suggestions welcome.

[gogalthorp]

It is an RC maybe there is still some debug code running??????

[bigtomrodney]

Yeah I was thinking that, but then again the RCs should be consumer ready and only stop for bugs. I would be happy if that was the problem though.

[gatekeeper]

I will be done with downloading the RC1 and install it afterwards. I have the 32bits (10.2 edition) installed. Will I have to delete it and reinstall Linux over?

[gatekeeper]

I will be done with downloading the RC1 and install it afterwards. I have the 32bits (10.2 edition) installed. Will I have to delete it and reinstall Linux over?

Found the answer to my question:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sus...md-athlon.html

[valemon]

Just installed openSuSE 10.3 rc1 x86 in my hp dv6397ea laptop. The installation went just fine, detecting usb mouse and keyboard. The wireless (intel 3945) and wired network devices worked out of the box. Also the bluetooth worked, which I couldn't get working in 10.2. bigtomrodney firefox and openoffice were really fast, no more that 3 seconds to start for the first time. Maybe it is a 64bit issue. I got a centrino core2 duo~2Ghz and 2GB ram. So far pleased from what I've seen.

[seles]

So, all you above what do you propose to install when the final release of Suse 10.3 will be ready?? the 64-bit or the 32-bit ? I have now installed Suse 10.2 x86_64. If i want to install the 32-bit 10.3 would it be better to make a clean install as i read on the previous link???