OPENSUSE 10.2 view

I recently installed OpenSuse 10.2 on my computer.

The installation went quite smoothly,the GUI of the installation page are very helpful and I get a lot of choices on how I'm going to install OpenSuse.

I choose to install GRUB on the /root partition instead of the MBR since I'm going to load Opensuse using Windows Bootloader,ntldr.

It took me about 2 hours and 30 minutes to install it and configuring my printer,Epson Stylus C65.The printer is configured easily,thanks to CUPS and gutenprint.
I install it using 6 installation cd(including Non-OSS addons) since I didn't have a DVD writer.

Overall it's quite good,but I personally think the GUI(I install KDE) is only average and I expect more of it since the installation took 8GB+.

THe packages in opensuse is managed using YaST.I think YaST is not bad but I think Snaptic Package Manager is better because it can install your dependacies and I think it will ease users even more.

THe browser includes Konqeror and Firefox 2.0,so I went to http://software.opensuse.org to get the latest firefox there.I install is using YaST and it took me about 3 minutes and soon I'm running the latest version of Firefox.

The multimedia section is average,with most of the aplications cannot play .mp3 files in a directory so I have to always open my folder and click on the .mp3 file to hear my music.

So I went to http://videolan.org to download VLC player.I followed the instruction in the site and I'm required to insert installation CD1 during the installation.

I gave the rate of 7.5/10 for Opensuse 10.2