Why I switched from Fedora to openSUSE
Up until now I had a Fedora 11 KDE setup but just a few days back I installed openSUSE. There were a few reasons behind it and ultimately when you hop from one distribution to another your reasons for switching will vary - you might like the packaging system or the distribution's implementation of your favourite desktop environment or something else.
If you're the kind who likes to build your setup using a base, then I'd recommend you try Arch Linux. I've enjoyed Arch but after a while I moved on to Fedora. Fedora was my first Linux distro back when it was Fedora Core 3 and I hadn't tried it since then. Fedora 10 was a solid release and so is Fedora 11 now.
openSUSE Build Service
After playing with Fedora 11 from its Beta release, I managed to setup a stable system running KDE 4.2.3. I even taught myself some basic RPM packaging and built RPMs for Bespin, QtCurve and Skultpture. There were no official RPMs for Bespin and Skulpture at the time and I planned on submitting them via Red Hat's Bugzilla for approval. Around that time I started looking for more RPM packaging resources when I stumbled on to some information on the openSUSE Build Service. The OBS allows you to build packages for multiple distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva to name a few. I've setup an account and I intend to read openSUSE's documentation in detail to understand how packages are built with OBS.
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