Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

OpenSUSE 11.0 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

Nate D writes "It's here: a new major release of Novell's community-supported distro is now available, and can be downloaded from the mirrors. Linux Format has a hands-on look at the new installer, SLAB menu and Compiz Fusion, and weighs up whether the distro can fight competition from Ubuntu and Fedora. Is this the start of a new era for SUSE?"

11 of 301 comments (clear)

  1. I will not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I will not use it on my box. I will not use it with a fox.

    1. Re:I will not by russlar · · Score: 4, Funny

      I will not use it on my box. I don't want to know what you are or are not doing with your box.
      --
      Anybody want my mod points?
    2. Re:I will not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hell of an argument isn't it?

      "No one ever got fired for buying microsoft."

      No one has ever been fired for drinking a glass of warm urine in the privacy of their own home. Doesn't make it the right decision or a pleasant experience.

      Well, at least I don't think anyone's been fired for that...

    3. Re:I will not by larry+bagina · · Score: 4, Funny

      plenty of people have been modded down over a nice glass of fristy piss, though. On any given day, there's probably half a dozen people bragging their frosty piss on slashdot.

      --
      Do you even lift?

      These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

    4. Re:I will not by gardyloo · · Score: 2, Funny

      This is slashdot. Take the education where you can get it!

    5. Re:I will not by mgblst · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, all fine. I have been doing it for years. But then post a couple of innocent pictures on facebook, and the shit hits the fan. People are strange.

    6. Re:I will not by Fast+Thick+Pants · · Score: 5, Funny

      What is it called if something is so sad that you can't even risk joking about it? Transportation Security Administration?
    7. Re:I will not by moronikos · · Score: 3, Funny

      Budweiser is close enough.

  2. Re:Sure, why not. by amnezick · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oops, run kid

    --
    mov ax,4c00h
    int 21h
  3. Yay, no Gnome top-menu by bestinshow · · Score: 2, Funny

    Instead of having the typical top and bottom panel arrangement, OpenSUSE sticks with a single panel along the bottom of the screen, combining the application launcher with the taskbar and notification areas. HURRAH! Finally. I hate that top menu bar in Ubuntu, it looks so amateurish with those Firefox/Mail/Help icons rammed up against each other.

    Shame the review didn't use KDE, as that's the good point about SUSE as far as I am concerned.
  4. Re:SuSE's firewall is best by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've used all three (U, F, & S) and keep going back to SuSE because of the SuSEfirewall2 configuration feature. It gives you one straightforward (fairly) easy to understand text config file that governs how the iptables rules get set up.
    Bah. Back when I started building Linux firewalls, we didn't have fancy firewall building scripts or GUIs. We had to know what we were doing with iptables and grok the difference between say, REJECTing a packet and DROPing a packet.

    So iptables is iptables is iptables to me.

    You kids and your fancy configurators.

    Now get off of my lawn!
    --
    My blog