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Hehe, fair enough, well it was the opposite I was refering toWally Balljacker wrote:Ah, ok thanks. I must have miss read that. I thought you meant right-click and copy link location.
I ended up installing both KDE, and GNOME, and I'm really liking SUSE alot. The default themes and styles are very nice, and everything is put together very well. I still think I prefer Synaptic for package management, but YaST is very robust and easy to use as well.Tsuroerusu wrote:Hehe, fair enough, well it was the opposite I was refering toWally Balljacker wrote:Ah, ok thanks. I must have miss read that. I thought you meant right-click and copy link location.
Anyway, I see you choose GNOME, what do you think of SUSE's first go at providing a complete GNOME desktop? Prior versions to 10.0 never gave the user the choice between KDE and GNOME, it just installed KDE.
Wally Balljacker wrote:I ended up installing both KDE, and GNOME, and I'm really liking SUSE alot.
Infiltration Complete! 'Ey if you prefer Synaptic, you can definitely get it on SUSE, first of all, you need to install the apt package, then you need to set the sources.list file up, here's a good place to start:Wally Balljacker wrote:The default themes and styles are very nice, and everything is put together very well. I still think I prefer Synaptic for package management, but YaST is very robust and easy to use as well.
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# A very basic sources.list file.
# Remove "base" in case you are behind a slow connection.
# Fastest repository comes first, with netselect it is possible to determine
# the fastest repository easily.
# Visit the server to determine which apt components are provided.
# rpm ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/10.0-i386 base update security java extra suser-guru packman
rpm ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/10.0-i386 base update security java extra suser-guru packman
# The list with all available components can be found at:
# http://linix01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm
# Some components provide experimental software, select wisely!
# http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386/examples/sources.list.FTP
# Consult the link above if you want to include uri's for src rpms
Sounds good, but I'll probably just stick with YaST for now. It wouldn't hurt to learn another package management system.Tsuroerusu wrote:Wally Balljacker wrote:I ended up installing both KDE, and GNOME, and I'm really liking SUSE alot.
Just kidding
'Ey if you prefer Synaptic, you can definitely get it on SUSE, first of all, you need to install the apt package, then you need to set the sources.list file up, here's a good place to start:Wally Balljacker wrote:The default themes and styles are very nice, and everything is put together very well. I still think I prefer Synaptic for package management, but YaST is very robust and easy to use as well.Then do "apt-get update", and then "apt-get install synaptic"Code: Select all
# A very basic sources.list file. # Remove "base" in case you are behind a slow connection. # Fastest repository comes first, with netselect it is possible to determine # the fastest repository easily. # Visit the server to determine which apt components are provided. # rpm ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/10.0-i386 base update security java extra suser-guru packman rpm ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/10.0-i386 base update security java extra suser-guru packman # The list with all available components can be found at: # http://linix01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm # Some components provide experimental software, select wisely! # http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386/examples/sources.list.FTP # Consult the link above if you want to include uri's for src rpms
Of course not, just thought I'd tell you that you could certainly get Synaptic if you wanted toWally Balljacker wrote:Sounds good, but I'll probably just stick with YaST for now. It wouldn't hurt to learn another package management system.
Err....apt-get? I didn't know SuSE used that....are you sure you don't mean YaSTjsusanka wrote:upgraded to suse 10 last night from 9.3 and it went flawlessly except for one thing - mysql wouldn't start up - so I just did apt-get remove mysql and then apt-get install mysql and it started right up with all my databases still there intact.
Yeah there was an ebuild that used that hack but I couldn't get it to work a while ago. I will see if I can find it again and try it because I hate having to startup firefox-bin everytime I want flash (I love the Open With... Mozilla Firefox feature on Konqueror but it would be easier if it had native support)jsusanka wrote:I compiile my web middleware on my boxes and all that worked fine afterwords along with all the flash and java plugins are still in tack.
sweeeet! - now my daughter can use my amd64 machine with all her flash stuff for school.
Great man, btw how is your boot time? Thanks to my 10,000 RPM hard drive mine is like 20 seconds (From Grub into KDE).jsusanka wrote:upgraded to suse 10 last night from 9.3 and it went flawlessly except for one thing - mysql wouldn't start up - so I just did apt-get remove mysql and then apt-get install mysql and it started right up with all my databases still there intact.
If this doesn't prove all the past myths about SUSE being sluggish and slow wrong, I don't know what does!jsusanka wrote:one thing I noticed about suse is the swap usage. it doesn't use any - where my ubuntu installation on the same amd64 box would use some. - pretty much same stuff running but I was just wondering if anybody knows if they do anything different to their kernels to improve swap and memory usage. could be just me and my box.
LOL, dude you sound like you've just seen a ninja (http://www.askaninja.com)CptnObvious999 wrote:Err....apt-get? I didn't know SuSE used that....are you sure you don't mean YaSTjsusanka wrote:upgraded to suse 10 last night from 9.3 and it went flawlessly except for one thing - mysql wouldn't start up - so I just did apt-get remove mysql and then apt-get install mysql and it started right up with all my databases still there intact.
Yeah there was an ebuild that used that hack but I couldn't get it to work a while ago. I will see if I can find it again and try it because I hate having to startup firefox-bin everytime I want flash (I love the Open With... Mozilla Firefox feature on Konqueror but it would be easier if it had native support)[/quote]jsusanka wrote:I compiile my web middleware on my boxes and all that worked fine afterwords along with all the flash and java plugins are still in tack.
sweeeet! - now my daughter can use my amd64 machine with all her flash stuff for school.
well since I just booted it once since the upgrade it was definitely quicker but nothing to write home about.Great man, btw how is your boot time? Thanks to my 10,000 RPM hard drive mine is like 20 seconds (From Grub into KDE).
Hmmm OK, next time you reboot, try to count and see what you getjsusanka wrote:well since I just booted it once since the upgrade it was definitely quicker but nothing to write home about.
Yeah, that I noticed too, 10.0 was a great release, but 'ey, this time SUSE didn't do it themselves, community contributions helped a lot.jsusanka wrote:what I do notice is the desktop is a heck of a lot snappier
especially now since I upgrade to kde3.5.2 it is a lot quicker - like something to write home about quicker.
Hehe great!jsusanka wrote:very happy with this on my amd64 box - I have a feeling it is going to stay on there a while.
