Hi Saifi! Thanks for the mail. I tried to break my shackles off Ubuntu and use openSUSE 11 instead. But I must say that the temptation to get back to Ubuntu is simple irresistible. I'll summarize my experience here.
Firstly, my laptop has an Atheros wireless card and the madwifi drives provided by default in both distros do not work. Though I found the package that makes WiFi work flawlessly for both distros, I was less than happy with theopenSUSE experience. The complation would just fail citing missing .config file in the kernel source tree. A problem easily solved if the kernel sources are installed. But the case was not to be. It kept giving me the same error. So I reinstalled the OS (Yup! Sounds dumb. I know!) this time with the kernel source packages selected while installing and everything works fine without a complaint. I had a similar experience with Eclipe for LAMP. I installed Java after the OS installation and Eclipse fails to work. The same thing works when Java is selected during the OS installation. Ubuntu needs the gstreamer bad and ugly plugins to play mp3, mpeg, wmv formats etc. I did the same in openSUSE but it didn't work. So I decided to dump openSUSE and reunite with my love of 3 years - Ubuntu as openSUSE was just being too much of an impediment to my work especially the WiFi. Regards, -- Navneet Thillaisthanam
