Well I know compared to most people I am writing down my opinion of the latest OpenSUSE release a little late but…I wanted to try it out a bit, kick the tires before I put anything on here about it. And I am certainly glad I did.

OpenSUSE 11 is slick. And I don’t just mean slick looking, I mean it is fast too. Normally we expect to sacrifice speed for pretty, or vice versus. Honestly I did not find this to be the case in the least with OpenSUSE 11. I have been running it now for about 2 weeks solid on my home workstation. It is a now fairly aged AMD 3000+ Venice Chipset with 2 gigs of Ram and a GeForce 7800GS video card all sitting snuggly on an Asus A8V Deluxe mobo. Three years ago when I built it, it was a very decent rig. Today they sell $900 HP Pavillions at Costco that could blow it out of the water.

I don’t really want to dwell on the points you’ve probably read 100 times about the new installer and how much faster the package manager zypper is etc…I’ve read about 10 reviews so far and they all pretty much say the same things. I’d like to point out a couple of my favorite features.

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