Binding: DVD-ROM
EAN: 7418529631231
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Novell
Manufacturer: Novell
Model: 10.2 (x86 edition)
Publisher: Novell
Studio: Novell
Feature:
- 1 DVD contains all the software you need to install openSUSE
- openSUSE 10.2, formerly known as SUSE Linux 10.x, is the same as Novell's commercial version but without support
- The openSUSE DVD comes with thousands of packages, but should you want more there are many more available in the online repository, and there are thousands more packages available in the openSUSE Build Service
- Compiz is a window manager taking advantage of the amazing capabilities of OpenGL. This new window manager developed by Novell engineers provides true transparency (even for playing video media), wobbly windows, an amazing desktop cube effect (as displayed in picture), and much, much more
- YaST is there to ensure that even the most demanding tasks -- such as setting up a HTTP Server, Configuring your Network Card, handling BlueTooth Devices, managing Software, or even configuring your Monitor and Graphics Card -- can be accomplished trivially with an easily-accessible interface, and simple walk-through wizards
Product Description:
openSUSE 10.2 from Novell provides everything today's Linux user needs for home computing and computing-on-the-go. Created by the openSUSE.org project, the product includes a stablized, secure and reliable Linux operating system plus a complete set of desktop applications - office suite, Web browser, instant messaging client, multimedia viewers, and graphical software. It also offers the latest open source applications for developing applications, setting up a home network, running a Web server, and more. openSUSE delivers desktop reliability and security at an affordable price.
Customer Reviews:
 Good, but highly incomplete, 2008-05-20
Good buy for the money. ($5 including shipping and handling) Unfortunately, they crammed what they can (on a single CD) which takes up 650MB. A decent Linux installation these days with all the bells and whistles will exceed 3GB. This means you have to download all your applications directly from the OpenSuse web site. This is certainly possible, but it is painfully slow. The YaST updater is very easy to use, but you have to use it a hundred times (at the cost of 5 minutes per pop, if you have very high speed broadband like I do. Double that for standard DSL. Using a modem? Don't even try.) The CD disk you get does not include even the basic stuff like gcc, gdb, make, RCS, or any tools. I was particularly ticked off by the fact that the installation did not even offer "tsch" as the login shell at the time the user accounts were created. This is because tsch was not part of the CD package. It is the most common shell used on UNIX, and the second most common on LINUX.
I will gladly pay twice as much money, if the installation was on a DVD instead, and included all the standard packages. (And why not? They are available free of charge.) A single CD Linux installation days are long gone, this is the year 2008.
On the OpenSuse Linux itself, I don't have much to say. I have been familiar with it for a long time, and I like it a lot. It comes with KDE by default, which is a good desktop. But there are better ones. Windows users may prefer Gnome. The power users may prefer Enlightenment. In either case, you will have to go through a painful switching process with downloads and adjusting the settings. The release 10.2 is approximately the same quality as others I have used before, with one exception. I could not make the wireless work on my laptop. (Fortunately, the ethernet port still works, otherwise I could not download anything.) YaST finds the wireless card and configures it (with my encription keys), but at the end it does not work. (There is nothing wrong with the wireless card or its configuration. When I boot my laptop to Windows, the wireless works perfectly well.)
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