Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Jun 2008 21:11 UTC
"Of all the community distributions, probably the least known is openSUSE. After two and a half years, the distro is not only still working out details about how its community operates - including how its governing board is elected - but also struggling to come out of the shadow of its corporate parent Novell, much as Fedora has emerged from its initial dominance by Red Hat. With the pending release of openSUSE 11.0, community manager Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier suggests that the distribution is finally starting to get the recognition it deserves. In the middle of preparations for the new release, Brockmeier took the time to talk with Linux.com about the priorities within the community and its relation with the larger world of free software."
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I agree with your assessment of OpenSuse's implementation of KDE. It is very polished, although Fedora 9 seems equally polished so far as well. Maybe I'm just a sucker for customizing the "K" logo on the launcher button but it does seem I get far fewer KDE crashes in both OpenSuse and F9 than I do in Linspire/Freespire's KDE implementation.
OpenSuse also has a repo. system that I find similar to Ubuntu's which makes finding packages a breeze.
The next server I slap together at home I plan on using OpenSuse. Yes I know the console only one Ubuntu has is good and I've used it before but OpenSuse has included some very nice tools for administration that just makes things simpler.
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I still believe openSUSE is the best (read: highest quality) KDE distribution available. Not that openSUSE is specifically targetting KDE over Gnome (maybe they are, i dont know)...
What I mean is that if you want to run KDE, I believe openSUSE to be the distribution which will give you overall the highest quality desktop with the most polish and integration.
It is stable, and very well put together. There are loads of packages available and lots of info on the net for opensuse (howto's, forums, official guides etc).
Of course I am just voicing my opinion, your own preference for a "KDE" distro may be different to mine.
Looking forward to openSUSE 11.0. Should be a great release and an important milestone. Hopefully there will be an update for KDE 4.1 once it is released, or maybe an openSUSE 11.1 including a more mature and updated KDE 4.1.
Being the last release for this next "wave" of Linux Distribution releases, I hope openSUSE 11.0 is worth the wait!!