Novell releases a new version of the famous distribution opensuse, arrived now at 11. Let me say right away that opensuse has made great strides compared to previous versions. Just put it in comparison with the previous 10.3 to immediately appreciate the great work done by the developers of the open source community, with regard to stability, lightness and ease of use of the system.

We see more detail in the news and how to install the distribution on your system.

CHOOSE THE VERSION
It starts by finding the iso, in 2 versions: live CD or DVD. The live CD, in line with Ubuntu and other distros less famous, can test the system in live mode and install it, however, can take advantage of a narrow range of software packages. Architectures supported as usual are x86, x86_64 and power pc, for fans of old Mac.

PROCEED WITH INSTALLATION
Whether a new distribution from all points of view, the note from the outset, completely renovated, simple and intuitive interface, which allows the user even less experienced venture operations in the disk partitioning.

If you choose the KDE graphical interface, the default will be installed version 4.0.1, now stable. For lovers of Gnome is version 2.21.90. Personally I prefer the KDE, but I must admit that Gnome under the point of view dell'usabilità has nothing to envy the most widely used Linux desktop environment.

CHOICE OF SOFTWARE PACKAGES
Opensuse certainly not disappoint us either under the terms of the software packages, including a wide range of open source applications for graphics (the gimp, Kriti), internet (firefox 3 beta 5, various messaging, FTP clients etc ...) integrated development environments and software for the office (OpenOffice 2.4 beta).

SYSTEM USED TO TEST
The machine on which I installed the opensuse is an Acer laptop extensa 5620z, with t2370 intel processor, Intel X3100 graphics card, 1gb ram DDR2 and 160 gb hd. On the machine is running Windows XP, then no problem with dualboot grub.

I gave it to partition 10GB / 40GB for / home (ext3 file system) and 1gb for the swap. In my opinion, for a minimal 8-10GB of disk and 1GB of RAM is sufficient for a distribution of this type.

The installation takes time for a coffee (the time to go to the bar and back). The system really little late to start, and once ready is now stable.

RECOGNITION HARDWARE
Regarding the recognition of your hardware, if you have a more or older will not have problems whatsoever. Then depends on what you want to use: if for example you have a card or a key Pctv wireless is not supported natively on Linux then you must enter the world of google and look in different forums looking for a driver.

This is a known issue with Linux, to which the open source community should steer their energies in the near future. If the first is the main problem was the lack of linux usability with the latest distributions disadvantage has resulted in a benefit at the expense of Windows.

IMPRESSIONS
Just take the only Kde4 without compiz-fusion, to dim the aero interface of Vista. Approposito, compiz-fusion is installed by default in opensuse 11, and if you have the video card drivers installed, you can make it run right away through the command compiz-manager.

The main improvement of KDE 4 was to use graphics libraries Qt 4 (with a saving of memory by 39%).

The main differences compared with 3.5 are:

• Dolphin as a file manager instead of konqueror (which remains as browser), designed to be easy to use, introduces a new navigation bar to explore the hierarchy of folders, the way "dual view" to navigate in two different directories simultaneously, a life saving operations for copy / paste.
• Plasma, a program that combines the features of KDesktop, Kicker and SuperKaramba 3-series, is the basic desktop composing background images, graphic effects and components similar to those available in Apple's Dashboard or Sidebar winzoz view.
• Solid, a library of multi-platform abstraction of hardware, enables better integration with the hardware to give the user greater consistency in the management of resources. He is currently working on integrating the management of devices, and is scheduled work for the recognition and network configuration and management of energy (laptop batteries, energy saving).

Installations to facilitate maximum.

An ingenious solution in my opinion, to install driver software or different, is the one-click-install, introduced by version 10.3, through which you can install everything with one click.

Another key aspect of this fantastic distribution is Yast (Yet Another Setup Tool). Yast is an exceptional tool for managing the system, the configuration of the network management package, through virtualization and management of the Firewall. I must say that compared to previous versions, the package management and repository has improved considerably.

TIPS AND TRICKS

Introducing the One-click installers to install your driver with a simple click, a real innovation for this version opensuse 11. Take advantage.

Video card

Codec Audio / Video

Compiz-fusion

CONCLUSIONS

In conclusion, if I were to advise a user beginners a Linux distribution, to say without doubt to prove opensuse 11. Why? In summary:

It 'easy to install, simple to use, efficient and stable, multi-tool has an excellent management system, for which we should never use the shell, and a wide range of open source software, capable of meeting the demands of' more experienced user.

What he lacks? As mentioned earlier, a driver support for devices not used. That's Wine, which can give us a hand to Microsoft applications (wine is able to run perfectly Office xp).

In short, a great distribution, which has nothing to envy to the most popular Ubuntu and Mandriva.

Just Try IT

Start from here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE_11.0

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