My OperaDay of the Distros - Continuing Testing
Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:00:47 PM
Tech News -
1) I booted into the OpenSolaris livecd, that was about as far as I had gotten. No support for my particular network card, only wifi. Which, usually, it's the opposite. Oh Well.
2) Scraping OpenSolaris I've installed OpenSuse 11.1 (still in testing). There are a few bugs, and a few "gotchas" that will keep me from using this Distro as well.
3) FGLRX is supported, but you have to install it manually, which means every time you update the kernel, you HAVE to rebuild the module manually. Not fun for me.
4) There is a bug, that when a new CD or USB Drive (any media, I'm sure) causes the open-folder to fail and the bug reporting app to come up, and the desktop to flicker.
5) Webcam does not work out of the box, neither does Compiz.
6) Touchpad scrolling does work out of the box.
7) I get an overall good feeling about this distro, but for the time being, I'm not fond of it, then again, I've never really liked Suse.
8) I've decided I'm going to be working with Lunar Linux (a build as you go system) last during the testing, because it is the one that will take longest to install.
9) Up next for testing is Fedora Core 10, followed by Arch Linux, and then Lunar Linux.
Happy Hacking
PiklesOnFire
1) I booted into the OpenSolaris livecd, that was about as far as I had gotten. No support for my particular network card, only wifi. Which, usually, it's the opposite. Oh Well.
2) Scraping OpenSolaris I've installed OpenSuse 11.1 (still in testing). There are a few bugs, and a few "gotchas" that will keep me from using this Distro as well.
3) FGLRX is supported, but you have to install it manually, which means every time you update the kernel, you HAVE to rebuild the module manually. Not fun for me.
4) There is a bug, that when a new CD or USB Drive (any media, I'm sure) causes the open-folder to fail and the bug reporting app to come up, and the desktop to flicker.
5) Webcam does not work out of the box, neither does Compiz.
6) Touchpad scrolling does work out of the box.
7) I get an overall good feeling about this distro, but for the time being, I'm not fond of it, then again, I've never really liked Suse.
8) I've decided I'm going to be working with Lunar Linux (a build as you go system) last during the testing, because it is the one that will take longest to install.
9) Up next for testing is Fedora Core 10, followed by Arch Linux, and then Lunar Linux.
Happy Hacking
PiklesOnFire
