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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Notes on OpenSuse 10.3 and cool finds like changing kernel schedulers

I was quite impressed after I just discovered you can on-the-fly change kernel schedulers in OpenSuse 10.3 – from a GUI! Just open Control Center->Open Administrator Setting->System Settings (last one at bottom)->Kernel Settings Tab. That’s savvy.

On the downside, OpenSuse still has not figured out how to integrate proprietary nVidia drivers, proprietary codecs, YaST is still slow, and it was a long install. However, the desktop is simply beautiful. Very polished, very refreshing and I love the evolution of the start panel. OpenSuse is the best “menu” on a Linux desktop to date (Ubuntu could take some lessons here even).

Users will also find a full suite of AppArmor utilities, Windows integration GUIs, and all around, the most well covered admin-from-a-gui experience around. If you’re looking at desktops or no-charge servers, you may want to try this one out.

Next up: Xen