Moving to OpenSuse !

Am using ubuntu, but am bored of it.
Thinking of opensuse !! am just worried about yast and repos available ! does it also have all software easily available just like ubuntu's synaptic ???????

Does the DVD Provide an out of the box experience ??
unlike ubuntu needed ATI graphics and ALSA Driver Install and also of course the multimedia plugins and codecs.

and guys any fast servers from where i can download opensuse ?? at full 2Mbps

I basically want to spend least time on Sys Admin task and save my precious time and be more productive and get the job done....!! hence looking for an out of the box linux !
Compiling software for install is a big over head.

Good Decision. The Open SUSE DVD provided by Digit is really great. You may have some issues while playing Videos since all codecs are not supplied. But that can be easily rectified by installing mplayer and its GUI kmplayer.

Yast by default has good collection of repositiries. But I will suggest you to add repository from www.packman.org also.

Opensuse is great for new and experienced users alike. Easy to install and upgrade. Multimedia support comes handy at *opensuse-community.org/Multimedia

It's good decision !!

hmmmm ok !! Where to download from??? Apart from Torrent ?? do you guys know any FAST HTTP or FTP ??

Download OpenSuSE 11 from here

And OpenSuSE default mirrors are fast enough.

really >? that's good news.
something wrong on my end then.
will try again today night at 2AM

the download speed that i get is very slow. as slow as 8KBps... today morning...!!

^^ I am on 256kbps connection and downloaded SUSE at the day of release. I was getting ~28kBps constant... the servers are fast. My experience, use Australia mirrors... they are fast.

a_k_s_h_a_y said:
Am using ubuntu, but am bored of it.
Thinking of opensuse !! am just worried about yast and repos available ! does it also have all software easily available just like ubuntu's synaptic ???????

I feel software selection is less than Ubuntu's, but good.

You will need these repositories
*en.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories
OSS
Non-OSS
Update

*en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories
Packman
VLC

If you install KDE
*en.opensuse.org/KDE/Repositories

If you install GNOME
*en.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories

If you want Virtualisation
*download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/VirtualBox/

Other Repos in the links mentioned above for special needs. In all the above repos click on mirrors, and in that look for the mirror with the score 100 or above. I usually use the unixheads mirror or mirrorservice.org mirror (UK mirror service).

Also refer, for offline mass installs
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91169

And this, for information on SUSE rpm installs, written for 10.3 but it's similar for 11.0
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87650

a_k_s_h_a_y said:
Does the DVD Provide an out of the box experience ??

NO

a_k_s_h_a_y said:
unlike ubuntu needed ATI graphics

*en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#ATI_Video_drivers

But refer Ati How to in that and they say that the official site has better drivers??

a_k_s_h_a_y said:
and guys any fast servers from where i can download opensuse ?? at full 2Mbps

Use Bittorent

a_k_s_h_a_y said:
I basically want to spend least time on Sys Admin task and save my precious time and be more productive and get the job done....!! hence looking for an out of the box linux !
Compiling software for install is a big over head.

Out of the box?? OpenSUSE comes with SUN JRE, acrobat reader (acroread), and flash plugin. I do not know if any other out of th ebox features are bundled, certainly not NVidia or ATi drivers, or codecs. You'll have to install them from the repos above

lol... nice...

thanks man for that...!!
doing the opensuse hopefully tomorrow or day after as soon as am done with the download...!!

Will you be able to appreciate it !
may the force be with you