{"id":41,"date":"2008-02-28T05:43:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T03:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.93.241.207\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-02-29T02:25:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T00:25:28","slug":"a-quick-look-to-opensuse-110-alpha-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"A quick look to openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 &#8211; GNOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just gave openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 a try installing it in a virtual machine. I used the GNOME single CD. Here there are my first impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The installer improved significantly, with a lot cleaner workflow. There are some minor problems, mainly cosmetical, like popups in the top-left corner instead than centere, but in general it worked like a charm and in 20 minutes I had openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 installed in my virtual machine.<\/li>\n<li>The desktop appears identical to the one of openSUSE 10.3, just with the PulseAudio icon in the notification area.<\/li>\n<li>The gnome main menu didn&#8217;t react to clicks on its button. The only way to open it is to right click on the button and choose the open option.<\/li>\n<li>The menu content is incomplete. For example YaST doesn&#8217;t appear there.<\/li>\n<li>The new package manager interface in YaST-GTK is not well organized, with huge buttons to select functionalities, and it&#8217;s very dissimilar from the corresponding Qt version.<\/li>\n<li>I experienced various crashes of the panel while trying to add applets.<\/li>\n<li>The international clock improved significantly and it now integrates weather forecasts. However when I was trying to configure it, it just crashed, making the whole panel crash too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this point I didn&#8217;t went further. The distribution is still under heavy development, as it is natural in alpha phase, and there are a lot of rough edges that makes it not ready for a regular usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just gave openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 a try installing it in a virtual machine. I used the GNOME single CD. Here there are my first impressions: The installer improved significantly, with a lot cleaner workflow. There are some minor problems, mainly cosmetical, like popups in the top-left corner instead than centere, but in general it worked like a charm and in 20 minutes I had openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 installed in my virtual machine. The desktop appears identical to the one of openSUSE 10.3, just with the PulseAudio icon in the notification area. The gnome main menu didn&#8217;t react to clicks on its button. The only way to open it is to right click on the button and choose the open option. The menu content is incomplete. For example YaST doesn&#8217;t appear there. The new package manager interface in YaST-GTK is not well organized, with huge buttons to select functionalities, and it&#8217;s very dissimilar from the corresponding Qt version. I experienced various crashes of the panel while trying to add applets. The international clock improved significantly and it now integrates weather forecasts. However when I was trying to configure it, it just crashed, making the whole panel crash too. At this point I didn&#8217;t went further. The distribution is still under heavy development, as it is natural in alpha phase, and there are a lot of rough edges that makes it not ready for a regular usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[115,114,23],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opensuse","tag-linux","tag-opensuse","tag-opensuse-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}