Moving from Fedora Core 5 to openSuSE 10.1
Last evening I finished downloading openSuSE 10.1. I burned them to 5 CDs, inserted disc 1 to my drive and started the installation.
The installation screen is very impressive, I like it a lot. However, the screen changes from page to page is very very slow. When it came to partition setup, the installer was able to detect the Fedora Core 5 LVM partition. It offered to delete the LVM and create its own partition table. I accepted the offer. However, the progress stopped at 0% while trying to delete the LVM partition. My computer stopped respoding.
I restarted my computer, put Windows XP installation disc. I planned to remove the LVM partition manually from Windows XP partition setup since the FDISK utility didn't help me any good. Again, the XP installation process stoppped even before it entered the blue installation screen.
After that, I entered Windows normally, installed Partition Magic 7.0. Luckily I could delete the LVM partition manually from there.
I put the SuSE 10.1 installation disc back to my drive and restarted my computer. Now, the installation process was much smoother. Even the changes from page to page became faster.
The partition setup part now didn't offer me to delete partition, it offered to use the free partition for its installation. Smart Offer! I just accepted it. All I can say is that the partition stuff in SuSE 10.1 is much simpler and user friendlier than in Fedora Core 5.
The installation only needed disc 1, 2, and 3. After installing from disc 1, the system rebooted and it booted like normal Unix operating system before it asked you to insert disc 2 and then disc 3. After it finished with disc 3, it just booted directly to the operating system without rebooting. It's different from Fedora Core 5 where it used all the 5 discs and then reboots the computer.
When first I got into the main screen, I noticed the font was extra big. I mean, it's okay if I am a grandpa, but I am not. So, I have to change the default application font size since it bothered me a lot. :)
My first disappointment was it didn't have PostgreSQL database installed. However, all PostgreSQL rpms can be found in disc 4.
My second disappointment was it didn't have perl-Wx rpm at all. Actually it was the main thing which I was after before deciding to move to openSuSE 10.1. Again I had to install it manually.
After using openSuSE 10.1 for some time, I came to a conclusion that perhaps the system is more suitable for desktop computer use. It differs from Fedora Core 5 since Fedora Core 5 installs everything that a server needs, like PostgreSQL database. OpenSuSE 10.1 screen has a very 'clean' look. I like it, but the default font and icon size is killing me! :)
The installation screen is very impressive, I like it a lot. However, the screen changes from page to page is very very slow. When it came to partition setup, the installer was able to detect the Fedora Core 5 LVM partition. It offered to delete the LVM and create its own partition table. I accepted the offer. However, the progress stopped at 0% while trying to delete the LVM partition. My computer stopped respoding.
I restarted my computer, put Windows XP installation disc. I planned to remove the LVM partition manually from Windows XP partition setup since the FDISK utility didn't help me any good. Again, the XP installation process stoppped even before it entered the blue installation screen.
After that, I entered Windows normally, installed Partition Magic 7.0. Luckily I could delete the LVM partition manually from there.
I put the SuSE 10.1 installation disc back to my drive and restarted my computer. Now, the installation process was much smoother. Even the changes from page to page became faster.
The partition setup part now didn't offer me to delete partition, it offered to use the free partition for its installation. Smart Offer! I just accepted it. All I can say is that the partition stuff in SuSE 10.1 is much simpler and user friendlier than in Fedora Core 5.
The installation only needed disc 1, 2, and 3. After installing from disc 1, the system rebooted and it booted like normal Unix operating system before it asked you to insert disc 2 and then disc 3. After it finished with disc 3, it just booted directly to the operating system without rebooting. It's different from Fedora Core 5 where it used all the 5 discs and then reboots the computer.
When first I got into the main screen, I noticed the font was extra big. I mean, it's okay if I am a grandpa, but I am not. So, I have to change the default application font size since it bothered me a lot. :)
My first disappointment was it didn't have PostgreSQL database installed. However, all PostgreSQL rpms can be found in disc 4.
My second disappointment was it didn't have perl-Wx rpm at all. Actually it was the main thing which I was after before deciding to move to openSuSE 10.1. Again I had to install it manually.
After using openSuSE 10.1 for some time, I came to a conclusion that perhaps the system is more suitable for desktop computer use. It differs from Fedora Core 5 since Fedora Core 5 installs everything that a server needs, like PostgreSQL database. OpenSuSE 10.1 screen has a very 'clean' look. I like it, but the default font and icon size is killing me! :)
posted by Bungsuputra Linan at 7:04 PM
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