OpenSUSE 10.1 Review: "Versatile but Uneven"

capt turnpike writes "Calling it 'solid,' the eWEEK.com lab boys tested OpenSUSE 10.1. The upshot? FTA: "We appreciated the ambitious scope of OpenSUSE 10.1's configuration tools, but we also ran into some areas in which Yast's reach frustratingly exceeded its grasp." What does that mean for Novell's newest version of Linux? And when will it catch up numerically to Apple, which is already at 10.4.6?"

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My impressions of SuSE 10.1

[Carl T]

• They've done something to make the software installing part of YaST take ages to start.
• SuseWatcher no longer exists. I'm not sure how/if the system will notify me if a patch should be downloaded/installed and something then needs restarting (or rebooting...).
• The lack of codecs for most common audio and video formats is as annoying as ever. I've installed a working xine from Packman.
• I have found no way to get readable fonts and non-broken widgets in GTK applications. This was bad enough in 10.0 but now it's a lot worse.
• A KDE issue: I can no longer copy text by marking in a terminal without also doing so in programs like Mozilla and OpenOffice.
• A good thing: The machine boots a lot quicker than with 9.2.