On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Prasanna Venkadesh > <[email protected]> wrote: > > OpenSuse is one of the most stable distro I have ever seen. Trust me, I > > have started linuxing with Ubuntu like many others and get crashed my > > system while trying up something new. > > I have been using SuSE Linux since 1996 for my servers and have been a > happy user. I was evaluating 12.1 from RC1 stage for desktop and it > was stable. > > I installed 12.1 RC1 on a brand new laptop (i5-2430, 4GB RAM, Intel > GPU, WiFi, BT, card reader etc.) and all devices work out of the box > w/o the need for downloading BLOB drivers. I upgraded to 12.1 > released version as soon it was available on the mirrors. > > On the desktop end I am happy with it. > > However, if you want to use 12.1 on the server side - a few words of > caution. I was an early adopter on the server side as well but > reverted back to 11.4. > > There are quite a few issues, mostly related to the switch from System > V init to Systemd init. Change to System V init, if you must use 12.1 > on the server side. See openSUSE mailing list archives for issues > with 12.1. Plan to open bug reports on the breakage I have > experienced. > > My 10 paise.
Thanks Mr. Arun Khan for your valuable suggestions on OpenSuse 12.1. Hope this information will be useful for those who are using OpenSuse 12.1 and those who want to make a try :-) -- Regards, Prasanna Venkadesh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PuduvaiLUG (puduvai Linux Users Group): http://puduvailug.wordpress.com/ FOSS Jobs all over India: http://fossjobs.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
