SUSE Linux 10.1 Screenshot Tour

An anonymous reader writes "Distrowatch reports - Following some eight months of testing, the openSUSE project has finally released the long-delayed and much-awaited SUSE Linux 10.1: 'After lot of work and several delays, we proudly announce the availability of SUSE Linux 10.1. As usual, we ship all the latest open source packages available at the time. We want to give special mention to Xgl for 3D acceleration on the desktop, NetworkManager for getting painless WiFi access everywhere, the completely open source AppArmor 2.0, and the full integration of Xen 3 in YaST.' OSDir has some great screenshots of the fresh SUSE Linux in the SUSE Linux 10.1 Screenshot Tour."

Comments

Looks nice!

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

This is looking great!

Nice simple clean theme unified across KDE & Gnome, the install, the boot screen, partition manager, etc. They all look the same & really pretty nice.

Good job Suse!

Oh - and this release includes XGL - if anyone wants to have a look at what it looks like - check out this video (I think it's Suse 10, but with lots of extra's included in 10.1) - man it looks nice!

NetworkManager vs. dhcpcd

[Optikschmoptik]

I've been using NetworkManager for wireless on 10.0 for a few weeks. It's a huge improvement over dhcpcd (standard install on 10.0), at least for ndiswrapper-based card drivers. Before, I had to open kwifimanager to get a list of available networks, but I couldn't connect with kwifi. I had to go into YaST, change the network settings to whatever I found with kwifi, by hand, restart the Network with YaST, hope I typed everything in right, then maybe connect; I also sometimes had to do it from ifdown/ifup in the command line. It was enought to make me want to boot into windows.

Now with NetworkManager, I can wardrive again! Thank God for NetworkManager!

Nice for laptop

[mattcasters]

Last time I wrote on Slashdot that Mandriva was installing fine but refused to even run on my laptop I got modded into oblivion.

So it's with great joy I have to say that I've been working with SuSE 10.1RC3 for a couple of weeks now and it really IS very nice. I have a brand new laptop: Acer 5612, Dual Core, NVidia 3D card, etc.
In hours I got everything working, *including* Xgl which is nice.

Special thanks to the MPlayer guys who installed the video codecs on it at Linuxtag in Wiesbaden.

Hey, I'm even starting to like Gnome. Who would have though it possible on SuSE? ;-)

Cheers,

Matt

Re:I've always wondered about SUSE,

[HaydnH]

It was originally a german translation of Slackware.

Re:GNOME 2.12 !?

[richardablitt]

I think the features freeze was a month or two ago, and the main changes since then have been bugfixing. Gentoo only unmasked 2.14 a couple of weeks ago, so possibly Suse didn't think it was stable enough at the time either. It also only has kde 3.5.1 since 3.5.2 came out slightly too late.

Re:GNOME 2.12 !?

[barefootgenius]

Just add Gnome in your installation sources. That way you get the updates as they come along.....Actually, having just looked at http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/suse/Suse/i386/supplem entary/GNOME/ it looks like they only have the updates for 10.0 at the moment so you might have to wait for a couple of days for the update_for_10.1 folder to come up. Have a look around though.
Novell will be using Gnome as the default on SLES and Novell Linux Desktop but the KDE libraries will be be supplied on both as well. You choose which desktop to use on OpenSUSE.

Re:Cumbersome Install

[MrResistor]

An install should consist of:
1. Create users.
2. Would like me to create the partitions for you? (offer an advanced feature as well)
3. Are you going to use DHCP, or a static address?
4. Would you like to review the software that is going to be installed?
5. Click next to complete.


That's pretty much how the Suse install has been since I first installed it in late 1999. I have a hard time believing those screenshots are an accurate representation of the process (and several of them a just loading screens, btw).

Re:I've always found Suse to be a nice distro, but

[chadruva]

Yast is notably faster now, at least the main window loads faster. The new package manager works faster too.