Alessandro17 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Now the artwork is being finalized, everything looks stunning beautiful, especially in KDE4. In my humble opinion, it is the most beautiful OS I have ever seen. It is neither "over the top" (like Vista) nor "toyish" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakeeyes Posted May 24, 2008 Author Share Posted May 24, 2008 Now the artwork is being finalized, everything looks stunning beautiful, especially in KDE4.In my humble opinion, it is the most beautiful OS I have ever seen. It is neither "over the top" (like Vista) nor "toyish" screenshots if u can please....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 screenshots if u can please....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakeeyes Posted May 24, 2008 Author Share Posted May 24, 2008 nice is the panel resizing working perfectly now? I still haven't updated my machine cause I am at cousins these days, and how is compositing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 is the panel resizing working perfectly now? how is compositing? They are working fine. But as I have already said in this forum, I'll be using KDE 3.5 for still some time to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 OpenSuse is looking really good. The Gnome theme is really nice. I might give it a go on my Powerbook once it's out. Does OpenSuse support synaptic? That's one thing I can't live without Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakeeyes Posted May 26, 2008 Author Share Posted May 26, 2008 I think opensuse does have synaptic in its repos, but their new improvements to yast kick synaptics ass and installing software is going to be even easier than synaptic once the final release is out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 Does OpenSuse support synaptic? That's one thing I can't live without I was a specialist of apt4rpm and synaptic, years ago. It was replaced by smart package manager because apt4rpm is unmaintained and doesn't support repomd repositories very well. However the upcoming YaST package manager is going to be one of the fastest and intuitive of any distro. I say it as a big Debian fan: apt is great, but the new YaST isn't second to anything. Among others, it is the best at solving conflicts. With apt I have often to use the arcane "dpkg -i --force" command. Another issue with apt is that if it is interrupted for whatever reason, you'll have to use the CLI again: "dpkg --configure -a". It doesn't happen with YaST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakeeyes Posted May 26, 2008 Author Share Posted May 26, 2008 and yast supports delta rpms as well which will speed things up for those that might still be on dial up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 I was a specialist of apt4rpm and synaptic, years ago.It was replaced by smart package manager because apt4rpm is unmantained and doesn't support repomd repositories very well. However the upcoming YaST package manager is going to be one of the fastest and intuitive of any distro. I say it as a big Debian fan: apt is great, but the new YaST isn't second to anything. Among others, it is the best at solving conflicts. With apt I have often to use the arcane "dpkg -i --force" command. Another issue with apt is that if it is interrupted for whatever reason, you'll have to use the CLI again: "dpkg --configure -a". It doesn't happen with YaST. Cool, as long as there is an easy package manger with a wide selection of packages, I'll be happy It's amazing they've never come up with something like synaptic for Mac... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakeeyes Posted May 26, 2008 Author Share Posted May 26, 2008 Cool, as long as there is an easy package manger with a wide selection of packages, I'll be happy It's amazing they've never come up with something like synaptic for Mac... Mac OS X and OpenSUSE r too COOL to for synaptic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 It's amazing they've never come up with something like synaptic for Mac... In order to use apt/synaptic you need central repositories, and all the packages must have the same free licence. They can't have a licence where you have to pay, accept agreements, where a dev wants to advertise himself... Debian and openSUSE have some packages which require the user to accept a licence, but they are very few (and of course you don't have to use them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 Cool, as long as there is an easy package manger with a wide selection of packages, I'll be happy It's amazing they've never come up with something like synaptic for Mac... Try Fink! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 Try Fink! Fink mostly compiles from source, and not native Mac applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 I wonder how the Macbook support is on OpenSUSE 11? Hardy Heron broke a few things that worked in Gutsy and Fedora 9 is pretty good, but I have other problems with that distribution (it's KDE4 implementation is horrible!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 I wonder how the Macbook support is on OpenSUSE 11? I am sorry, I can't help you there. Never owned a real Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakeeyes Posted May 27, 2008 Author Share Posted May 27, 2008 I wonder how the Macbook support is on OpenSUSE 11? Hardy Heron broke a few things that worked in Gutsy and Fedora 9 is pretty good, but I have other problems with that distribution (it's KDE4 implementation is horrible!) Well I am not sure but suse will have kernerl 2.6.25 so wireless should work cause this kernel is going to have loads of wireless drivers and so should everything else if they worked in fedora cause I think fedora has 2.6.25 as well. OpenSUSE's power management from my experience is better than fedora's so I think that might work well as well. If the hardware worked well in fedora 9, then it should work equally well if not better in suse 11.0 according to me, but I can't guarantee anything, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 s'ok mate, the news about the kernel and the wireless drivers was insightful enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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