Donn, don't give openSUSE a bad name. All the main distributions, Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE, etc., etc. are level pegging as far as content is concerned and are quite solid.
Whatever distro you use, you are going to meet old friends such as DRM/nouveau and of course KDE4. I have them running on 3 boxes and NVidia on 3. I have Fedora 14, Mint 10 and a host of others running in VirtualBox VM's on openSUSE as well, also a box with Kubuntu and a Beagleboard running Ubuntu. Flightgear runs on openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3. I'm running 11.3 on one box and 11.4 Milestone 3 on 3 boxes without significant problems - just one Milestone 3 problem and that is with gpm not working in VC's. As I've mentioned before, I've never seen a list so clear of problems, many thousands are running openSUSE happily or else you would see the mailing list with volumes of complaints voiced very loudly and with hostility, not just your own. The mailing list is a busy one with almost 100% devoted to what people would like to see in 11.4 Gold Master. When you have something failing there I run it here no problem which leads to the conclusion that your box has some sort of hardware problem, memory/CPU/Power Supply/cables/cards or whatever. I bet the same troubles will happen whatever distro you use. Regards Sid. On 22/11/10 17:24, Donn Washburn wrote: > Thanks for the reply! > > Well I am going to dump openSuSE because of over about the last 3 > version nothing has been done to answer a reasonable question for about > 6 month from openSuSE elist. Also among things that fail continuously > are Blender, FlightGear fails, K3B will not look at any "."files, > anything with MP3 files will not play (I know it is for legal reasons > and there is a backdoor site to fix it) and console wise gpm even > fails. It is all being caused by KDE4 and its helper files and KVM > along with nouveau. > > I have been very happy with openSuSE until recently (about 1 year). You > might ask why they break things without checking whether they won't even > come passed a bootsplash. > > On 11/22/2010 09:47 AM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: >> * Donn Washburn -- Monday 22 November 2010: >>> I will add to the openSuSE 11.4 M3 headaches which are likely going to >>> cause me to look at Ubuntu and dump openSuSE. >> Are you kidding? M3 is a *DEVELOPER* release. It's not meant for >> impatient end users. If you can't stand the heat ... wait for the >> actual 11.4 release. >> >> m. >> -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
