[Ilugc] OpenSuse 12.1 Features Revealed
- From: knura9@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:54:46 +0530
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Prasanna Venkadesh
<prasmailme at gmail.com> wrote:
OpenSuse is one of the most stable distro I have ever seen. Trust me, I
have started linuxing with Ubuntu like many others and get crashed my
system while trying up something new. But in this case everything is much
stable.
I have been using SuSE Linux since 1996 for my servers and have been a
happy user. I was evaluating 12.1 from RC1 stage for desktop and it
was stable.
*Version Number*
With a bunch of new features and elegant performance improvement this new
version is numbered as directly .1 rather .0, because .0 would create many
expectations of major improvements.
I installed 12.1 RC1 on a brand new laptop (i5-2430, 4GB RAM, Intel
GPU, WiFi, BT, card reader etc.) and all devices work out of the box
w/o the need for downloading BLOB drivers. I upgraded to 12.1
released version as soon it was available on the mirrors.
On the desktop end I am happy with it.
However, if you want to use 12.1 on the server side - a few words of
caution. I was an early adopter on the server side as well but
reverted back to 11.4.
There are quite a few issues, mostly related to the switch from System
V init to Systemd init. Change to System V init, if you must use 12.1
on the server side. See openSUSE mailing list archives for issues
with 12.1. Plan to open bug reports on the breakage I have
experienced.
My 10 paise.
-- Arun Khan
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