Suse after many months of deliberation and milestone editions has finally released the 11.4 which looks pretty good. Thanks to business like approach and releasing it on the date schedules but I have a feeling that it could have been released much earlier and the many milestones were not necessary for a distribution widely used unless of course like Redhat and Ubuntu were making radical changes. SuSe does not need any radical change. It's KDE stands out as a robust but RAM craving entity and very useful desktop which has hybrid of Apple and Microsoft feel.
Thanks goes to the KDE Team and it is one of the best.
My appeal always was for KDE and not Gnome even though I am not fanatical like Gnome and Debian guys.
I am a Debian fan too and for its effort on Sinhala Edition I have revived my allegiance to it. It has a special place in my cognition and the other rivaled that was Redhat which lost its charm after Fedora. Now even Fedora is trying to catch up with others.
SuSe does not have to do any catch up except to change it corporate image which it burrowed from Novel and had corrupting influence of Microsoft like CEOs.
Thanks goes to the KDE Team and it is one of the best.
My appeal always was for KDE and not Gnome even though I am not fanatical like Gnome and Debian guys.
I am a Debian fan too and for its effort on Sinhala Edition I have revived my allegiance to it. It has a special place in my cognition and the other rivaled that was Redhat which lost its charm after Fedora. Now even Fedora is trying to catch up with others.
SuSe does not have to do any catch up except to change it corporate image which it burrowed from Novel and had corrupting influence of Microsoft like CEOs.
If they drop those two elements and let the innovation to be its driving force it can reach the masses again.
It should follow the leading changes introduced by PCLinux with many light weight edition and a very nice and promising Gorilla Edition (fullmonty).
I have become a fan of Puppy (all editions), Knoppix and PCLinux and those were the top three installed in recently assembled IBM (second hand) computer with big SATA hard disk.
This is the first time I have had a hard disk above 80 GiB.
In any case I need a big hard disk for the images I download and test. All these time with a modest 80 GiB IDE hard disk I have accomplished downloading over 300 CDs and a very few DVDs.
My forth distribution is Mepis and it has not come up with a new edition for a long time.
Coming back to SuSe, even though the DVD came on the dead on time, the CDs were there in the Linuxtracker a few days earlier but because of the server breakdown there at Linuxtracker I could not download them. I was not keen anyway to download before the dead line today evening, being Friday I came early because of cricket matches (watch TV and to see England succumbing again) and downloaded both KDE and Gnome versions.
Both are pretty good.
I was happy that they dropped OpenOffice and Libreoffice is now the master of ceremony.
It should follow the leading changes introduced by PCLinux with many light weight edition and a very nice and promising Gorilla Edition (fullmonty).
I have become a fan of Puppy (all editions), Knoppix and PCLinux and those were the top three installed in recently assembled IBM (second hand) computer with big SATA hard disk.
This is the first time I have had a hard disk above 80 GiB.
In any case I need a big hard disk for the images I download and test. All these time with a modest 80 GiB IDE hard disk I have accomplished downloading over 300 CDs and a very few DVDs.
My forth distribution is Mepis and it has not come up with a new edition for a long time.
Coming back to SuSe, even though the DVD came on the dead on time, the CDs were there in the Linuxtracker a few days earlier but because of the server breakdown there at Linuxtracker I could not download them. I was not keen anyway to download before the dead line today evening, being Friday I came early because of cricket matches (watch TV and to see England succumbing again) and downloaded both KDE and Gnome versions.
Both are pretty good.
I was happy that they dropped OpenOffice and Libreoffice is now the master of ceremony.
Branshee is taken over the media player. Apart from those changes the SuSe image was kept intact.
The Venetian blind like appearance (not vertical but horizontal) of the graphic is very pleasing. It has kept the green image which is very good and environmentally friendly guy like me who likes blue for personal image, having a touch of green like my ornamental plants gets full marks.
You get 10 out of 10 in spite of my criticism on corporate actions.
Thanks guys and girls at SuSe community.
It would have been better if this was released in December instead in March like PCLinux and many other distributions and you guys would have gone on a long holiday which you deserve.
I will download the DVD and install it my computer which as become redundant due to my upgrade. I will take another 24 hours (altogether 36 hours), that is how our Telecoms gives me the band width.
I strongly suggest that in your next release the CD version comes in December rather than March. This year because of the Cricket World Cup, I like many Sri-Lankan I have programmed enough time to coincide with cricket matches but not next year though.
You get 10 out of 10 in spite of my criticism on corporate actions.
Thanks guys and girls at SuSe community.
It would have been better if this was released in December instead in March like PCLinux and many other distributions and you guys would have gone on a long holiday which you deserve.
I will download the DVD and install it my computer which as become redundant due to my upgrade. I will take another 24 hours (altogether 36 hours), that is how our Telecoms gives me the band width.
I strongly suggest that in your next release the CD version comes in December rather than March. This year because of the Cricket World Cup, I like many Sri-Lankan I have programmed enough time to coincide with cricket matches but not next year though.
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