Hello everyone.
I have holidays and that means I have some time to spend for my hobbie:
Testing Software!
Some of you might saw my posts on Twitter, Riot or Diaspora -- or this Title, my new system of choice is openSUSE !
I think oS (my way to make openSUSE shorter) not getting enough attention for this great change it done, oS Leap is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise (the system that powers IBM Watson) and is now a very stable os for day-to-day use.
In an Interview with Richard Brown, the chairman of the project board. Richard said:
""Leap is the world’s first ‘hybrid’ Linux distribution
SUSE have made available the source packages for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12, and will also be including the sources for maintenance updates, in our openSUSE Build Service.
This has enabled openSUSE to build a unique distribution that takes ‘the best of both worlds’. Leap has a ‘core’ which shares a great deal of code with SUSE Linux Enterprise, but on top of that core the openSUSE community have built a large, capable community distribution, including technologies like KDE and newer versions of GNOME which are not readily available on SUSE Linux Enterprise.""
I switched from Ubuntu/Debian to it and this might be the end for my rapid distro-change because it contains all good of all major distros:
1. The flexibility of Debians 4.7GB install DVD (fits for old and new computers, desktops and servers, development ... etc)
2. The stability and reliability of RedHat/SUSE
3. The "freshness" of Fedora
4. The easy-to-use abilities of Ubuntu
5. (Almost) the documentation of Arch
And a little something that reminds me of Linux Mint (I don't know what it is, it also could be the "greenness")
But, yes of course, oS also has downsides like no official Live DVD but I heard they will come, unoffical Live versions are available. (I am speaking about Leap, oS Tumbleweed has official Lives)
I am sadly no big fan of the default wallpaper. (I like the idea of the light-bulb but 80% of the wallpaper is just black)
That's it (for me at least)
....
Now some testing!
As said openSUSE Leap fills up an full DVD ~4.3 GiB , and after installing all of them you will have an ~13GiB big system.
You can select between different setups:
KDE Desktop, the default.
GNOME Desktop, the other default.
Server, text-only system.
XFCE Desktop, for old PCs.
X11 Desktop (IceWM), for desktops from a time before me (manufactured in <1998)
After some other known steps of installation setup it shows a Summary with information about what is done exactly.
You can change the Software again but more detailed, and there you can install every software-package contained on the DVD
I have done this very successful and I ended up with a system that was "bloated".
Watching this 6000 packages install was amusing, and I watched a playlist on Youtube with 50 "We are number one " videos on my phone.
They installed and I was impressed, the bootup was fast and the amount of software on the DVD is huge, Krita, Pitivi and other opensource software pearls are on it.
I was very happy, even after Nvidia drivers, no problems!
### 3 days with openSUSE in bloat ###
My testing was successful, no real bugs, only gnome and kde where fighting together with xfce about the config files, using a user for each of them solved the problem.
I will install now a good selected system, no bloat but much software. Of course only with the installation DVD and no internet like before.
I installed Steam and Nvidia drivers. No bugs or problems, they just work.
On Ubuntu I had to remove some files from the Steam runtime, on oS not.
I am very happy with openSUSE, its perfect right now.
No Nvidia problems or too old software on Debian.
No bugs on Ubuntu that make the system slow after some time.
No bugs on Fedora becouse the too early use of Wayland or old software.
No hard installation like on Arch.
openSUSE is a operating system for beginners and newbies, running on almost all hardware and is also a great server OS, all on one amazing DVD!
Its very easy to install, and use.
Of course Ubuntu is easy too, but it does that by hiding more advanced configurations in the command line. While on oS I only need yast.
On openSUSE its very easy to setup the firewall on ubuntu and others you need to use the terminal.
I feel like having finally a Linux distro that is not in the middle of development, a system that I have under control and runns stable even in hard times.
I hope it will remain in this state.
Thanks to the openSUSE team and all sponsors. I will make some popularity changes for it.
