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openSuse 12.1 Review: An Elite OS

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Muktware; By Swapnil Bhartiya
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This is the favorite time of the year, it's like Christmas for a GNU/Linux user. This is the time of the year when most Linux distros release their latest versions. We have already played with Ubuntu 11.10, Fedora 16 and today openSUSE 12.1 arrived. I have been casually using openSUSE 12.1 (RC) for a while and am quite comfortable with it -- a compliment as its coming from a long-time Ubuntu user. If I look at my pattern I have been switching between Ubuntu 11.10, Fedora 16 and openSUSE 12.1 quite a lot recently. My Google + page is full of my experiences with these three OSes.

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For some reason I've had more problems with Ubuntu and derivatives than with openSuse.

Last night I did a test of the in-place upgrade and ran zypper from the command line to upgrade a server from 11.2 to (11.3, 11.4, then) 12.1. It went flawlessly. I may forgo downloading the DVD ISO at all and just do an online update of all my systems.
I've been meaning to revisit KDE 4 and it's my understanding that Suse/OpenSuse does KDE better than anyone. I have a spare partition and will take a look at it over the weekend.
Quoting:Last night I did a test of the in-place upgrade and ran zypper from the command line to upgrade a server from 11.2 to (11.3, 11.4, then) 12.1.


I'm glad it worked, but that sounds punishing ...
> I'm glad it worked, but that sounds punishing ...

More punishing that backing up all your data, reinstalling, restoring all your data, reinstalling all of your software that isn't installed by default, and then customizing your system again? Sound like pretty much a wash to me. It's not like you have to sit there the whole time it's upgrading.

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