Summary: After several delays, openSUSE 12.2 has finally arrived and it's mostly good news. But along with all the positive experiences, you should watch out for a problem with Grub 2.
It's been over a week now since openSUSE 12.2 was released, and I have been installing it on the various netbooks and laptops around me. It has worked just fine on everything I have tried so far, and my intention was to write a glowing summary of how easy it is to install and how well it works. Then, over the weekend I ran into a small hitch. But first, the good news.
The openSUSE 12.2 submission is available in the regular wide range of variations — KDE and Gnome 3 Stay pictures, and a full-blown 4.7GB Installation software picture. The conventional KDE pc is proven above in a show shot taken on my HP Pavilion DM1-3105EZ sub-notebook, which has a 1,366x768 show.
However, all is not natural and favourable with this submission — well, mostly natural, as seen above, but not entirely favourable. This submission seems to have knowledgeable a particularly challenging growth pattern. There were several setbacks in the routine, what showed up to be a finish quit in growth to re-establish a hold on the procedure and any launch missing the incorporation of a lot of program up-dates.
The most apparent outcome of these problems is that after you set up from one of the live pictures, it is essential that you then run apper or yast to set up the newest up-dates. That upgrade procedure will take a excellent 30 minutes or more because there are so many up-dates to set up.
Once that is done you will have latest variations of fairly much everything, such as Linux program kernel 3.4.6, KDE 3.8.5, Chrome 15.0, digiKam 2.6.0 and such.
I can't create about openSUSE KDE — or any other KDE submission for that issue — without referring to my preferred minilaptop pc, which is involved with the conventional KDE submission. Here is a show shot of that pc, taken on my Acer Desire One 522, which has a 1,024x600 show resolution:
However, all is not natural and favourable with this submission — well, mostly natural, as seen above, but not entirely favourable. This submission seems to have knowledgeable a particularly challenging growth pattern. There were several setbacks in the routine, what showed up to be a finish quit in growth to re-establish a hold on the procedure and any launch missing the incorporation of a lot of program up-dates.
The most apparent outcome of these problems is that after you set up from one of the live pictures, it is essential that you then run apper or yast to set up the newest up-dates. That upgrade procedure will take a excellent 30 minutes or more because there are so many up-dates to set up.
Once that is done you will have latest variations of fairly much everything, such as Linux program kernel 3.4.6, KDE 3.8.5, Chrome 15.0, digiKam 2.6.0 and such.
I can't create about openSUSE KDE — or any other KDE submission for that issue — without referring to my preferred minilaptop pc, which is involved with the conventional KDE submission. Here is a show shot of that pc, taken on my Acer Desire One 522, which has a 1,024x600 show resolution:
If you have a minilaptop or sub-notebook, there are so many factors to use Linux program instead of Windows seven Stupor Version, such as better performance, no absurd irrelavent restrictions such as not being able to modify the background or not being able to use an exterior observe with an prolonged pc. This amazing KDE minilaptop pc is another fantastic purpose.
But there is one serious issue with the conventional openSUSE 12.2 set up, which I didn't run into the first few periods that I set up it.
I choose Heritage Grub to the more latest Grub 2, because I discover it simpler to set up and sustain. I think that Grub 2 is over-complicated for my requirements, and I like the openSUSE cartoon start show. So I'm in the addiction of modifying the bootloader choice in the openSUSE set up from Grub 2, which is the standard, to Grub.
This previous few days I made the decision to take a look at Grub 2 again, to see how it has designed since the before I tried it. Unfortunately, I ran into a very huge issue. It did not set up on my HP DM1 program, stressing about not being able to finish the mkinitrd control.
That issue seemed unusual and unlikely to me, because I had already set up it on my Acer AO522 with no issue. But another try created the same outcome — and re-installing on the Acer prevailed again. Very unusual.
It changes out that the issue is that it does not effectively acknowledge and assistance the AMD Radeon HD 6310 visual operator in the DM1, but it manages the Radeon HD 6290 operator in the Acer just fantastic. The remedy is to modify the Bootloader from Grub 2 to Grub in the ultimate set up phase. Then everything performs well.
But there is one serious issue with the conventional openSUSE 12.2 set up, which I didn't run into the first few periods that I set up it.
I choose Heritage Grub to the more latest Grub 2, because I discover it simpler to set up and sustain. I think that Grub 2 is over-complicated for my requirements, and I like the openSUSE cartoon start show. So I'm in the addiction of modifying the bootloader choice in the openSUSE set up from Grub 2, which is the standard, to Grub.
This previous few days I made the decision to take a look at Grub 2 again, to see how it has designed since the before I tried it. Unfortunately, I ran into a very huge issue. It did not set up on my HP DM1 program, stressing about not being able to finish the mkinitrd control.
That issue seemed unusual and unlikely to me, because I had already set up it on my Acer AO522 with no issue. But another try created the same outcome — and re-installing on the Acer prevailed again. Very unusual.
It changes out that the issue is that it does not effectively acknowledge and assistance the AMD Radeon HD 6310 visual operator in the DM1, but it manages the Radeon HD 6290 operator in the Acer just fantastic. The remedy is to modify the Bootloader from Grub 2 to Grub in the ultimate set up phase. Then everything performs well.
