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Open Suse is a free version of Suse, essentially something like a beta version with user a guinea pigs. You can use it if you do not value your time or if your needs are close to what is provided by default installation.
This is another victim of systemd rollout.
Opensuse 13.2 gives impression of an alpha version, not even beta version. In addition to troubles with systemd, if KDE is used then VNC does not work. IPv6 is hardwired and can be disabled only via grub. Attempt to disable via Yast does not work.
The system like many other modern linux distributions is excessively complex and crumbles under the weight of own complexity.
- Initial account password is also password for root.
- Grub need to be specified for /boot partition
- Default file system is btrfs Beware !!!
- No networking out of the box, need to add default rout manually via yast.
- Completely bizarre Ghome 3 desktop
- Hostname is in /etc/hostname, changeable with yast, but it remains the same in system jounalctl
- Need to set up proxy via yast for patching to work (curl takes those settings)
- If you export X11 to PC, In Exceed keyboard layout is completely messed up. Strange keyboard incompatibility problem
- Midnight commander installed by default
After trying to login via VNC as a regular user I got black screen and notice from lnusertemp utility (man page) that:
"Call to lnusertemp failed {temporary directories full?}. Check your installation."
(see useful post kde4 call to lnusertemp failed • KDE Community Forums about which KDE directories should be cleaned in this case).
In my case the problem was not in directories with wrong ownership: it looks like the utility was not able to create user directory in /run/user/733333 directory where 733333 is user id. I created it manually and VNC started working.
Also desktop effects should be disabled in KDE. Some people also suggest disabling IPv6, but in my case that was not related to the problem I experienced, although it might speed Internet browsing.
Troubles with VNC revealed completely Byzantium configuration which for a long time was typical in Gnome: a maze of semi-documented utilities with obscure settings, etc.
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30-Dec-2014, 13.2 VNC connects, but login to Desktop goes nowhere
Greetings!Default Re: 13.2 VNC connects, but login to Desktop goes nowhere
Just did a clean install of OpenSUSE 13.2
Want to get VNC going and I can connect OK at the login screen. Login is accepted, but then just the login background shows.
Wait long enough (several minutes) and the login screen reappears. Happens same way no matter which desktop environment I choose (I have both KDE and Gnome installed). Locally, either works fine.
I modified xstartup per https://forums.opensuse.org/content....-openSUSE-12-3
but makes no difference.
Guidance, please.
Thanks,
PaxtonRe installed openSUSE 13.2
Turned on remote adminstration
turned off firewall (As I use a separate machine for that)configured /etc/xinetd.d/vnc
Server / Args: -noreset -inetd -query localhost -geometry 1024x786 -securitytypes none
( found that I had to use user = root to get the login screen to appear)When connecting on the local network (using the IP address) Connection is instant to login page.
After login is accepted, green background is shown, but KDE desktop does not appear. After several minutes, the login dialog reappears.
Login works normally locally on the machine.
How do I get the KDE desktop from VNC?
Paxton
Re: 13.2 VNC connects, but login to Desktop goes nowhere
I had the same problem and finally figured out that vnc sessions offered by /etc/xinetd.d/vnc only allow one connection at a time on a given userid, which includes the local X session. I was able to establish a remote vnc session once I logged out of the local console, or when I connected to a non-logged in user. I do not believe that it has always worked this way. I believe the OpenSuse document calls this a one-time VNC session.
I then found out that if I opened a terminal window, and ran vncserver as the logged-in user, not superuser, I could open multiple remote sessions, and did not have to log out the local session. The first time you run vncserver it asks for full-access and read-only passwords, then tells you what display port it has made available. Run it again and you get a new port in addition to the original. the documentation calls this a persistent VNC session. You can use an ssh client like PuTTY to remotely start the vncserver.
The document is at:
https://activedoc.opensuse.org/book/...ccess-with-vnc
All of this is probably obvious to the world, but I spent a lot of time thrashing around on it, so perhaps it will save someone else some time.
Regards.
Jim.
Default Re: 13.2 VNC connects, but login to Desktop goes nowhere
Terrific. Really appreciate your response. Makes sense as I was logged in locally at the time I was attempting to connect with VNC. So I logged out the local session, but still no joy. (I am using vncviewer on a Win7 machine)
I had studied and followed the instructions at https://activedoc.opensuse.org/book/...ccess-with-vnc
and even re installed 13.2, but still did not work. (It seems to me this could work 'out of the box' It is dead simple on the Windows machines.)
I have an openSUSE 12.2 machine that runs VNC just fine. Use it all the time. Can't get it to work on my 'in use' 12.3 machine, though. So, now working on 13.2Anyhow,
Next I tried your suggestion of issuing the vncserver command as the local logged in user and it did give me a new port number (2).
While still logged in locally, I then tried to connect with vnc to the new port number and it asked for my password and bingo, in to a KDE desktop.
Then, I logged out of the session and expecting VNC to close as it does on my openSUSE 12.2 system, the VNC screen just went black no notice of connection closed.
I closed the VNC window. I launched the vncviewer again and connected and it asked for my password and then I get the blank screen again. No way to login. So, I rebooted the openSUSE 13.2 machine.
Now back where I was, namely launch the viewer and immediately see the SUSE login screen. Attempt login and goes nowhere. Try to connect the viewer to port two and it is actively refused. Log in to 13.2 locally and run vncserver as a normal user it gives me port 3. Now launch vncviewer and it asks for the password and a KDE desktop opens!
Well, I call that progress, but more to do to make it clean.
Thanks again, Have fun
Paxton19-Jan-2015, 15:59 #5
Default Re: 13.2 VNC connects, but login to Desktop goes nowhere
Well, connection works great in Persistence mode. But, Dolphin will not work in 'Super User' (root) mode.
Without that capability, not useful.Any suggestions how to get Dolphin to work in SU mode over VNC?
Paxton
Default Re: 13.2 VNC connects, but login to Desktop goes nowhere
Hi everybody!
I have the same problem with the black screen after finishing VNC session (no matter if via "logout" or via "shutdown"), no way to get the remote machine to shut down (have to do via ssh with shutdown - h now).
I tried both TigerVNC as well as tighVNC Viewer (Windows), always via VPN.
Worked fine with opensuse 13.1 on the remote machine...
Does anybody have a solution for this?
Many thanx in advance!
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See also VNC Server installation on OpenSuse 13.2
This guide explains how to configure VNC server in OpenSuse 13.2. VNC is a very convinient way of administrating the OpenSuse desktops remotely. The GUI can be accessed from anywhere over the internet or local network with a VNC client on any OS. The only requirement is that the connecting OS has a VNC-client installed on it.
1 Preliminary Note
I have fresh installed OpenSuse 13.2 Desktop installed with KDE-desktop on which I am going to install VNC-server and configure to make it available for remote connections. My OpenSuse 13.2 desktop have hostname desktop1.example.com & IP as 192.168.0.100
VNC-server benefits:
•Remote GUI administration makes work easy & convenient.
•Clipboard sharing between host Ubuntu server & VNC-client machine.
•GUI tools can be installed on the host Ubuntu server to make the administration more powerful
•Host Ubuntu server can be administered through any OS having the VNC-client installed.
•More reliable and faster then running a X-Server over SSH.
•More reliable then RDP connections.2 VNC installation and configuration
Open Yast utilty as shown below.
And search for the software kdenetwork3-vnc, select the software and install it:
Press Accept:
It will ask for confirmation to make the changes, just press Continue.
Then in Yast utility goto Network Service --> Remote Administration (VNC)
You will get this screen.
Now select as shown below and press OK
Next, it will ask to install xorg-X11, just install the software.
It will ask to restart the display manager. Take a system reboot here.
3 VNC connection at client
Now I will connect to the server with the VNC client. It have a default port of 5901 and you can connect it with any VNC client very easily mentioning the listening port.
It will connect to the remote machine.
Enter the credentials and enjoy the remote connection.
Cheers now we have a successfully configured VNC server over OpenSuse 13.2 :)
4 Links
•OpenSuse: http://www.opensuse.org/en/
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- Initial account password is also password for root.
- Grub need to be specified for /boot partition
- Default file system is btrfs Beware !!!
- No networking out of the box, need to add default rout manually via yast.
- Completely bizarre Ghome 3 desktop
- Hostname is in /etc/hostname, changeable with yast, but it remains the same in system jounalctl
- Need to set up proxy via yast for patching to work (curl takes those settings)
- If you export X11 to PC, In Exceed keyboard layout is completely messed up. You can't even search packages in Yast is you use US keyboard ;-) Strange keyboard incompatibility problem
- Midnight commander installed by default
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openSUSE
systemd and other system-wide changes
SnapperSystem boot is now handled by the new systemd init tool, controlling and speeding up the boot process. Developed in close cooperation with fellow Linux distribution Fedora, systemd is especially interesting for system administrators due to its powerful socket- and bus-activated service system, which improves parallelization and resource usage. It also works closely with Linux's cgroups, providing better security and control over the processes.
If for some reason, systemd does not work for you, you can still use the old sysV-init by pressing F5 in the bootloader. If you want to permanently use the old init, just do `zypper rm systemd-sysvinit` and accept the installation of 'sysvinit-init' We also again provide grub2 as an optional bootloader. While we are still not satisfied with GRUB2 as a replacement for the current GRUB, we encourage users to try it out, and want to make sure it is available for developers.
openSUSE 12.1 is the first Linux distribution taking advantage of the snapshot functionality in the upcoming Linux filesystem, btrfs. These snapshots of the file system are using copy-on-write, making them very space efficient. openSUSE 12.1 debuts Snapper, which allows the user to interface with this technology.
The command line and GUI Snapper tools allow users to view older versions of files and revert changes. The unique integration in the zypper package manager of openSUSE allows users to roll back entire upgrades or software installations with the accompanying configuration changes.
Note that Snapper and the rollback functionality currently is only available for the btrfs filesystem! Work is going on to enable it for the older ext4 filesystem as well, but this will not be possible before the next openSUSE release.
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SuSE beats Red Hat in ease of use
Matt Loney
ZDNet UK
December 12, 2002, 09:54 GMTSuSE beats Red Hat in ease of use
Windows users thinking of switching to Linux -- either as an alternative or as an adjunct in a dual-boot system -- should turn to SuSE due to its ease of use. But more seasoned users will find the stability and stronger font control of Red Hat more to their taste.
A shoot-out between the two most popular distributions of the open source operating system found that each has its strengths, but that SuSE is the best option for people new to the operating system.
Among the strong points of SuSE 8.1 Profesional, according to ZDNet Labs, are the easy installation which includes automatic resizing of hard disk partitions during installation coupled with an "excellent" configuration tool. It is let down only by poor font management.
RedHat 8.0 Professional, by comparison, was found to be more stable, had much stronger font management and a wealth of applications included, but its setup remains daunting for first-time users, with no automatic partitioning of hard disks, it does not recognise some video cards, and the configuration tool is not as accomplished as the one supplied with SuSE 8.1.
In the review, SuSE Linux 8.1 was said to offer the best-looking desktop Linux distribution around with an installation process so smooth and uncluttered that it alone is enough to "merit consideration by Windows die-hards." But, said the reviewer, SuSE makes Linux palatable for any experienced Windows user and surpasses Red Hat 8.0 in both installation and interface. "If you're ready to switch to Linux, switch to SuSE."
There were criticisms, however. Better support for the GNOME desktop environment could be included. One of the two crashes that occurred during testing was due to GNOME's feature-rich email program, Ximian Evolution.
The default desktop however, which is KDE 3.0.3, will make Windows users feel right at home, said the reviewer, as it sports a Start button, cascading menus for accessing programs, and desktop icons that open to reveal applications, hard drives and system configuration options. "With its rich colours and stylised icons, the KDE desktop is little short of gorgeous."
It appears to be let down only by ugly screen fonts in word processing and Web browsing applications. "In fact, everybody's favourite Linux browser, Mozilla, is almost unreadable at times, so spindly, thin and jagged are its fonts," said the reviewer. This problem is somewhat made up for by the Konqueror browser, which makes better use of font anti-aliasing and creates much crisper, more readable fonts.
Red Hat 8.0 Professional, by contrast, had no problems running the same version Ximian's Evolution email program and includes better font control, although at £136 (inc. VAT) it costs more than double the price of SuSE. It is also tougher to install, said the reviewer and "suffers more hardware-recognition quirks."
Red Hat 8.0 includes the KDE desktop but opens by default with the leaner and more elegant GNOME desktop. GNOME's configuration tool offers fewer options than KDE's, but the options that it does provide -- such as fairly simple display, audio, and networking choices -- are very similar to those in Windows. "Red Hat 8.0 hides the huge range of configuration options that Linux is known for, so it's much more palatable to anyone who's used to tweaking Windows, which also hides some details for the sake of usability," said the reviewer.
Windows users who are used to Microsoft's ClearType display often find that Linux fonts appear appallingly thin and jagged. Red Hat, however, uses strong anti-aliasing to make desktop and application fonts look much smoother than in other Linux distributions, including SuSE Linux.
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This is a desktop comparison of Red Hat Linux 9 and SuSE 8.2 Professional Edition. We have used Red Hat Linux 8 for all our work since last fall, and installed version 9 as soon as it became available. However, we have not been fully content with Red Hat, so we gave SuSE 8.2 a try when it became available this month.Introduction, KDE vs. Gnome
Editorial Notice: All opinions are those of the author and not necessarily those of osnews.com
1. The System
Note: This is not a review whether these key
Linux distributions are ready for the desktop. They are - we use them for all the work we have - and we have plenty of it. This is a review whetherRed Hat Linux 9 is a better choice than SuSE 8.2 Pro for desktop use.The test machine first had Red Hat 9 installed. SuSE 8.2 was installed to the space left free by Red Hat. The machine was a very ordinary
PC with a 60 GBhard drive , a R-DVD and RW-CDROM drives and 256 MB of RAM.Both SuSE and Red Hat have a graphical installation manager. That's about all that's common. General installation logic is very different. Red Hat installation is clearly easier for a newcomer to understand and click through. However, with a little bit of knowledge of Linux, SuSE's feature-rich KDE style installation manager is very useful. Better check SuSE packages before you give it a go, since several key applications are not installed by default, like "locate" does not work on the command line. During the installation SuSE performs an unexpected reboot of the system that felt confusing. In general, installation itself is not an issue.
Both distributions use Grub, but very differently. SuSE overwrites Red Hat Grub configuration, so better save it somewhere. Later, you can add Red Hat titles to the boot loader using SuSE's graphical boot loader manager.
Both distributions failed to recognize the second
sound card that is integrated to the mother board (well, we knew beforehand that kernel 2.6 will be needed). Both also failed to properly configure the RW-CDROM since it refuses to mount any media. To us, this is just a reminder that we have to put more pressure on our hardware vendors to take care of installation and hardware compatibility issues themselves, like they would do for Windows.Funnily, and for an unknown reason, SuSE regarded the existing Red Hat EXT3 partition as a FAT32 Windows partition and tried to mount it as such to /windows/c, naturally with little success. This can be corrected at /etc/fstab.
2. KDE vs. Gnome
By default, SuSE goes with KDE and Red Hat with Gnome. We have relied on their default choices. To us it is just great that different distributions have started to make choices for the user. This helps the distribution makers to ease their workload, to collect their resources to better support the way they go and to help their applications of choice to integrate more efficiently. It also saves a lot of time for those users that do not want to make all the decisions themselves but willingly rely on professionals' opinion.
SuSE's default KDE 3.1 interface is faster than the Gnome 2.2 interface coming with Red Hat 9. The difference is so big that it is difficult to go back to Red Hat after some time with SuSE. Especially annoying is that basic everyday applications are tediously slow in Gnome, like Nautilus, calculator, text editor and others. You almost here clock ticking when you select "run application" from the menu ... Gnome may have a perfect architecture down there, but as long as it reflects this bad to the usability compared to KDE, Gnome has little chances to overthrow KDE in the desktop race. Gnome's general slowness may result in from the fact that everything is not ok with the general configuration, rather than from Gnome itself. However, default configuration is used, and failures in that are regarded to the loss of the vendor.
In my opinion, Red Hat's simplistic Bluecurve theme is not very efficient. It mostly fails to hide the fact that Open Source applications come from here and there and look very different. KDE's Keramik icons and SuSE's own window decoration are so effective together, that old and new, Gnome and KDE applications all blend together surprisingly well. However, if you go changing the SuSE default window decoration, Gnome applications get an ugly out-dated appearance under KDE.
A major plus for SuSE is a rather well-working clipboard. Perhaps the most annoying single issue in Red Hat (and Gnome) is the lack of an integrated copy & paste solution. For example, if you copy a piece of text, close the application from which you took the copy and then try to paste to another application - and find the clipboard empty...uh-oh! That drives you mad. Also the paste may be available via CTRL + V, SHIFT + CTRL + V or via the mouse roller. Red Hat really must work on this, there was no progress whatsoever in 9 as compared to 8.
SuSE has integrated their system control tools much better than Red Hat. Basically, SuSE's control tools are divided into two sets, one for KDE and one for system hardware, called Yast. Red Hat barely has any controls over hardware, bootloader or other lower level parts of the system. Also Gnome controls are scattered here and there, but not as badly as they used to be in Red Hat 8. Gnome 2.2 controls for desktop appearance and functionality lack seriously behind those of KDE 3.1.
Overall, Gnome still has a long way to go, that is, to catch KDE. You can use Gnome for your daily work, but be prepared for continuously annoying moments. A typical example of Gnome is that if you have a shortcut on the desktop, it does not say in its properties what application it will launch. Only the minimum amount of features seems to be implemented in Gnome. From my personal point of view, KDE 3.1 is not lacking any important features any more. It has tons of nice touches here and there that make you feel happy and relieved when you realize that hey, they've done this too, great! I can not name a single feature where Gnome would be ahead of KDE. Or actually, even close.
3. Linux applications
Both SuSE and Red Hat have a well-designed main menu. SuSE menu structure is a bit better, but for some reason they stick to applications' default names that make little sense to an unexperienced user. You have K3b, KSirc, gaim and KGet. Red Hat has omitted original titles altogether listing names like "Digital Camera Tool" in the menu. Furthermore, Red Hat is going for the best-of-breed kind of thinking by selecting just one application they see best in its field. SuSE often includes overlapping applications which is confusing. Frankly, it is not clear in Linux yet - even if Red Hat so hopes - which application is actually the best one in its category. Often you have to rely on the "second" best to get your job done since the "best" one just happens to lack a feature you need. Anyway, SuSE should follow at least Mandrake 9.1 that in the menu states both the application name and its purpose.
SuSE's default
Microsoft Outlook it has a taste of professionalism in its interface. Both have their annoying features, especially with multiple emailaccounts : KMail does not remember which account received the email when you are replying to it and Evolution keeps (still in 1.2) losing some of your account passwords every time it is restarted. Especially annoying is Evolution's attachment preview function that can not be turned off. If you get a lot of big images via email, you may not be able to save them, since Evolution FIRST tries to make a preview of every one of them using a very clumsy piece of code and easily runs out of resources before the task is accomplished. A major flaw.Konqueror is KDE's default file and
Internet browsing tool. Red Hat prefers Mozilla and Nautilus. All these applications are rather stable, but not without crashes. Konqueror seems to be slightly less stable than the others. Konqueror also has problems with some Internet sites. It does not support all Unicode characters, like Vietnamese. Nautilus is very simple to use, and its picture zoom operation is excellent. Konqueror does not zoom pictures too well. However, Konqueror is so fast to launch and operate, that even if SuSE also offers Nautilus and Mozilla, the performance factor just makes you leave them aside. Konqueror is also very well integrated to the overall system, and has several excellent features, like an in-built PDF viewer.A big minus for SuSE is the lack of a Jabber client. There is no PSI and no Gabber. Actually, Red Hat has neither as well, but at least you can get proper RPMs from the Internet with a minimal effort.
OpenOffice.org is better blended into Red Hat than into SuSE. Actually, Red Hat has just changed the ugly default OpenOffice background gray to a lighter one, but that gives a surprisingly more professional feeling. Otherwise both include OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 with similar functionality. SuSE has clearly left KOffice, the KDE office application set, for lesser focus. As long as KOffice lacks common read/write formats with both OpenOffice.org and MS Office, it makes little sense to anyone.
Installing applications later into the system is much better implemented in SuSE. Red Hat offers a complete graphical package manager to only those RPMs that come with their own CDs. That is not good, especially when they are encouraging people to go to Internet to get the decidedly left-out applications. If you are to remove, list, or check your own packages, command line is your package manager. SuSE's Yast has a slightly strange interface, but it offers all you need to manage packages.
Red Hat's well-known hysteria regarding license issues somewhat cripples their distribution. There is no MP3 support, no RealPlayer, no Adobe Acrobat Reader. The fact that you CAN go to the Internet and get them yourself does not make this issue go away (you can also go to the store and buy yourself another distro). SuSE, a German distribution, does not take these issues as seriously perhaps because in Europe the risk to become "blackmailed" due to potential unclear patent and license issues is much lower than in the United States.
By the way, a message to Adobe and RealNetworks: please update your Linux offering to match the current grace and style of Linux distributions. You only harm your own fame leaving it like it now is.
4. Windows applications
Red Hat does not provide Wine to install and run Windows applications, but SuSE has integrated it nicely in their system. However, Wine is not released yet, and SuSE clearly acts as if their inclusion of Wine is more experimental than for serious use. User manual does not say ANYTHING about it, but there it is in the menu, anyway. Does it work? Well, yes and no. Basically, using Wine is very simple. Just download a Windows application installation package and click it in Konqueror. If you are lucky, things go as if you were in Windows. When you do it for the first time, your jaw drops. Windows application installation using Wine is actually better than installation of most native Linux applications. Wine creates proper menu entries and desktop icons, using the program's own graphics. After installation, running the program is a click away and there you go. Sadly, many applications that I wanted to experiment with, ran into unrecoverable problems during the installation even though WineHQ database lists them to be ok. These include Delphi 7, Quicktime 6 and Internet Explorer 5.5. Many smaller applications, like WinZip, installed and operated perfectly.
The promise is there, almost. I could seriously imagine that the year 2004 is the one for Linux distributions to run most applications designed for Windows. In the meantime, check CodeWeavers' CrossOver products that run on top of Wine.
5. Conclusion
Kudos for SuSE 8.2. As a desktop operating system, it beats Red Hat 9 in almost every issue. Red Hat 9 is not a bad choice, but you can get a better user experience with SuSE 8.2.
Red Hat 9 SuSE 8.2 Installation 8/10 7/10 Hardware support 8/10 8/10 Usability 7/10 9/10 Visual appeal 6/10 9/10 Applications 8/10 9/10 Stability 9/10 9/10 Integration 7/10 9/10About the Author:
Aki Kolehmainen is an engineer working for a Finnish IT company. They are using Linux for all their activities. He can be contacted at [email protected]
Uhmm command line package installation? By N#n#N (IP: ---.vcr.centurytel.net) - Posted on 2003-04-29 04:52:49 "If you are to remove, list, or check your own packages, command line is your package manager"
--I may be missing the point and given I am pro-RH..but you can double-click an RPM in RH and it installs. Its true that there isn't a program like YaST included for package management, but downloading APT for rpm and synaptic solves that rather nicely :)..however I understand his point there.
RE: completely subjective By AndrewG (IP: ---.sc.rr.com) - Posted on 2003-04-29 05:22:13 Actually I was surprised because I recently did that on MDK 9.1. The only thing Gnome is faster at is starting up and then not by much. KDE's speed has increased dramatically of late. I had originally thought of switching to Gnome because I prefer the way it looks and some of the little touches. WHen I tried KDE again after a couple of weeks, I was blown away by how fast things felt. Personally it responds a lot fast than Windows XP with Classic window decorations and animation turned off.
To truly not be subjective you would have to run numerous tests on different systems though.
Thank you people for your comments to my article.
Seems that KDE / Gnome issue was the one according which the article has been judged, so some counter-comments follow.
KDE and Gnome are basicly very similar (and uninnovative) windowing systems. It is difficult for me to understand why somebody would bother to be a "fan" of either one.
Currently Red Hat 9 with Gnome 2.4 lacks many every-day features that SuSE 8.2 with KDE 3.1 has, but as time goes by, it will have them like KDE will implement the features that Gnome now has but KDE hasn't. The issue of KDE vs Gnome will pass by year 2005. In the meantime, however, you get your ordinary office work done more effectively using SuSE 8.2 KDE 3.1 than Red Hat 9 with Gnome 2.4. Gnome 2.4 is not a bad solution, and if somebody feels a need to say that I "hate" Gnome, I must say that I have no need to hate software products.
SuSE 8.2 with KDE 3.1 is very fast. All key KDE components open in around 1 second or less. Does it need to be faster? Red Hat 9 with Gnome 2.4 is not "slow" but when it takes 3 seconds to launch something that takes less than a second in the competing product, the feeling of slowness is natural. This is the feeling with all PCs we have so far tested, ranging from IBM laptops to self-assembled desktops. And no nVidia cards here. But again, I think this issue will pass as well.
What I would like to see in future articles of this nature is :-
1. Forget about the installation and go straight into first-time boot, indicating any Generic "Show-Stopping" problems that may occur. To fix problems, does the user have to edit text files, or could the problem be easily fixed via a gui environment ?
2. Brief comparison of the eye-candy and interface usability - when there's work to be done, who cares - most of us are familiar with Gnome and KDE anyway.
3. Setting up on an office network :-
* Connecting to a windows shared printer
* Connecting to a Linux shared printer
* Browsing a windows network
* Configuring Samba4. Basic Office work
* Writing an standard office document, such as a memo or quite in OpenOffice
* Saving that document for a windows user to open
* Printing the document5. Operation between applications
* Cutting and pasting text between applications
* Default handling of "common" "windows" filetypes, such as PDF, MS-Word, .zip - i.e. which applications open, are associated or even work on a default install.6. Basic hardware operation in a production environment
* Hooking up a digital camera/camera media and downloading images
* Hooking up a scanner and scanning an image for inclusion into a document
* Hooking up other USB devices, such as external drives7. Multi-media capabilities
* Play some mp3/ogg vorbis files
* Play a DVD (if a Dvd player is present)
* movies - what codecs are supported by defaultThis to me would form the basis of a useful article that could help people decide whether to choose or switch to a specific distribution. Most articles of this nature spend too much time on the install, eye-candy and menu system/look 'n feel
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Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks The efficient markets hypothesis : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013 : Unemployment Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 23, No.10 (October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments : Slightly Skeptical Euromaydan Chronicles, June 2014 : Greenspan legacy bulletin, 2008 : Vol 25, No.10 (October, 2013) Cryptolocker Trojan (Win32/Crilock.A) : Vol 25, No.08 (August, 2013) Cloud providers as intelligence collection hubs : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : Inequality Bulletin, 2009 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Copyleft Problems Bulletin, 2004 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Energy Bulletin, 2010 : Malware Protection Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 26, No.1 (January, 2013) Object-Oriented Cult : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 : Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification of sysadmin horror stories : Vol 25, No.05 (May, 2013) Corporate bullshit as a communication method : Vol 25, No.06 (June, 2013) A Note on the Relationship of Brooks Law and Conway Law
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