Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 14th Oct 2007 15:06 UTC, submitted by apokryphos
"The openSUSE team officially released version 10.3 on October 4th. openSUSE is a popular German Linux distribution that Distrowatch.com lists as one of the 'top ten'. Underneath its new green artwork, version 10.3's improvements over previous versions include cutting down the time it takes to reach the graphical login screen; speeding up and streamlining its package management utility; and making it easier for users to install software using a new 'one-click install' process."
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2005-07-29
My installation of OpenSuse's KDE, Gnome and XFce is now a few hours old.
I see a lot of changes in Novell's Gnome and almost none in KDE. This might be a result of the fact that Suse still uses the KDE 3.5.x series, but for me it is obvious that there is a clear intention behind these "heavy" changes to the original Gnome desktop.
( http://news.opensuse.org/?p=264#more-264 )
Moreover, I couldn't find the tool kappfinder in order to complete my K menu (absolutely horrible for me).
In Gnome there is no problem if I want to install new software, I use gtk-Yast and I find everything (or it seems that I find everything).
In qt-Yast a few applications are missing although they are shown when the gtk-Yast frontend is used.
But I'll reinstall the Yast packages and see whether this behaviour will appear again.
Personally I have no good feelings about this new Gnome "features" at the moment. The new slab menu gives me almost no information. Moreover, I couldn't get rid of it with one mouse click, I had to search for the "classic" Gnome menu. But in this classic menu the "Gnome ControlCenter" was missing so I had to add this manually (side by side with the gtk-Yast Control Center).
You are right about these 3D desktop effects.
Moreover, I don't understand why Suse 10.3 uses Xgl instead of Aiglx with my ATI Radeon 7500 card which has native OpenGL support, provided that the "Desktop Effects Enable" button is used in Gnome.
Debian Etch on another partition of the same computer uses Aiglx together with compiz. Here e.g. torcs is still playable without any workaround.