Friday, November 30, 2007

Back to SUSE after PC BSD 1.4

open SUSE 10.3 is installed on my PC after trying PC BSD 1.4 and Ubuntu 7.10

BSD was very fast to install and I have had a feeling that all KDE desktop was faster with BSD than with SUSE 10.1 on the same PC. Istalling the HP Photosmart printer was piece of cake. Unfortunately there was serious problems which become a reason to remove this OS. Some of the software, for example KTorrent did not work on my PC. I was not able to manage the system for to find my FAT partition. Obviously there is a way to do this but you have to know it. The help in the forum of pcbsd.org was not what person can have in most of the linux forums.

Now I have downloaded the openSUSE 10.3 It was just one CD and not for or five or DVD like usual. Maybe this is typical for the open version. Installation was somewhat long - about hour and half. Unlike Ubuntu 7.10 SUSE 10.3 found my XP and overwrite the previously installed boot manager GAG with GRUB without problems. The desktop is with comfortable new features and works perfect. The installing of the all needed packages for to read mpeg and mp3 goes automatically unlike 10.1 where it is not so easy.

http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia and voila;)))

SUSE 10.3 is perfect choice for beginner who will like to switch to Linux.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Google reader

Useful tool I like more than Firefox extension for reading RSS

Wednesday, November 14, 2007