SLED works!

[johnnywtllts]

Okay!, I got Suse to load on my Ubuntu AMD 64 machine. I took a clue from
k9wkj and downloaded SLED 10. I think there was something funky maybe at first (may have rebooted during the first try), but I tried the install again in "safe mode" and it works great. I may go back and try the safe option with Open Suse x64 later. Is there much difference under the hood between the two?

Must say so far, this is a pretty slick looking distro, very nice!, looking forward to trying the 3D stuff.

[Tsuroerusu]

Okay!, I got Suse to load on my Ubuntu AMD 64 machine. I took a clue from k9wkj and downloaded SLED 10.

Good man!

I think there was something funky maybe at first (may have rebooted during the first try), but I tried the install again in "safe mode" and it works great. I may go back and try the safe option with Open Suse x64 later.

Please allow me to have a Simpsons moment here: !!! DOH !!!
It's not because you did anything wrong, it's because I didn't think of this!!
I think it might be a driver that the installation has a problem with, for example some laptops have ACPI issues and then you just select no ACPI on the install boot screen and it will install fine, but may have ACPI issues after the installation.

Is there much difference under the hood between the two?

Not at all, SLED 10 is directly based off of SUSE Linux 10.1, which is cool because you can use the community repositories for SUSE 10.1 on SLED 10, which is great for people who wanna run SLED 10 and have all the multimedia stuff.
SLED 10 has all the latest package management fixes out of the box, so you don't have to mess with it, and the GNOME is a little more polished and has this cool new menu etc.

Must say so far, this is a pretty slick looking distro, very nice!, looking forward to trying the 3D stuff.

Yeah, I love the look of GNOME on SUSE these days, it's so refreshing after seeing a lot of gray looking, boring GNOME desktops in the past.
I'm primarily a KDE user, but SUSE's GNOME is the first one I'd consider using, FC5 is really great, but I get this "ducktape" feeling, because I have to add Tango myself and then Red Hat's system tools uses other icons etc. etc., SLED 10 just seems more polished, and a few other things here and there.
If you wanna install XGL, it couldn't be easier, if you registered during the installtion you have already had the ATi and NVIDIA repositories added during the installation, if you don't you can use YaST to register or follow this guide: http://en.opensuse.org/Zen-updater
To add either http://www2.ati.com/suse or http://download.nvidia.com/novell
The repository type should be set to "zypp".
Then you can open up the control center, select Desktop Effects and tell it to install the drivers and enable XGL, and then you just need to log out and back in, and you'll have XGL running with Compiz as the window manager.

[k9wkj]

yea it does reboot during the install
threw me for a loop to
thought it bombed and started it over oopps

[Tsuroerusu]

yea it does reboot during the install
threw me for a loop to
thought it bombed and started it over oopps

It's because YaST needs to reload the package management components and libraries and that is a little weird, but hey, at least it's not Windows trying to be secure!