Heratech

Just a quick note that I plugged a WG111v3 into my OpenSuse 11.2 and Ubuntu 9.10 (both x64) and it seemed to just work. However it only seemed to connect to my WPA wireless-not WPA2. Haven't tested it fully so perhaps have a quick look at the hardware support list before buying:

Amazon link: Netgear WG111

Ubuntu forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8442769

I am back using Ubuntu 9.10 x64 (Karmic Koala). I tried to use Suse 11.2 for a week but in the end I just couldn't. Suse is normally so polished but this release felt half-baked.

Ubuntu is just so much faster to do things in. Faster to update. Faster to install packages. Faster to find packages because of the bigger community/repositories. Things that would take minutes and lots of clicking in Suse's Webpin/Yast gui thingymajig take seconds with a sudo apt-get install.

Also does Suse even have mirrors? Downloading packages from them took hours and I could'nt find an easy way to set a mirror.
Another thing that worried me was that to get software I quite often had to install from locations that I didn't fully trust- repositories created by users that are on the suse site but I don't know how much checking they receive.

My wireless on Suse also felt buggy and my dmesg logs were full of weird messages about it that could not be explained by a quick google-perhaps another sign of a smaller community.

Suse did some things very well: Beautiful installer, pretty default theme, sound worked great out of the box, nice choice of default graphical effects when enabled.
The main bad points were: terrible menu by default, terrible 'traditional' menu layout, package management still sucks and a smaller community than Ubuntu.

Perhaps if I had used the full DVD install things would have been better? Or perhaps if I had used the KDE live install?
I will try Suse again in a year and hope things have changed. Until then back to the wonderful, easy, quick world of Ubuntu (and its ugly default theme).

I was just trying to install Aptana in my new OpenSuse 11.2 setup and ran into a strange problem...it seemed Aptana was just refusing to be added as a install source (instructions here). After closer examination (read googling) it turns out that it was just not reading the mouse click properly:
Solution found: here
Running fixes the problem
Wrapper (assuming you are using eclipse at /opt/eclipse

First thoughts:

Pretty installer.

Installing nvidia proprietary drivers from this link: http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA
Why is it downloading 800mb of packages? I know I used the Gnome live cd install but still...

This page looks useful: http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories

Fonts look really bad on my screen. Not sure why yet.

Wireless worked out of the box (unlike Windows 7).

Sound isn't working right now (unlike Windows 7). I will see if I can get it going. My sound card is the Asus Xonar DX.

The Gnome default menu thing is possibly the worst piece of design I have ever seen. Switched back to 'Traditional Menu' (right click on taskbar and click Add).

Anyway thats all for now. 700Mb of packages still to install before my Nvidia drivers are done. I am going to bed.

I tried to install Suse 11 a few days ago. Very pretty installer but after reboot failure to configure new user.... I could login as root and start a basic X session but not much else. Gave up.

Tried to install Fedora. Installer quite nice but not as pretty. Everything was working great until I installed the Nvidia drivers using the instructions from the Fedora FAQ. Then nothing (black screen) and couldn't seem to reverse it...