Talk:OpenSUSE

message: This article seems to be lacking direction. I propose that openSUSE be clearly defined and separated from the SUSE article, or just be merged into one gigantic SUSE page. Lets really think about this and what we can do to clean up the articles to make them more distinct. Just a thought, would like to hear input negative and positive. Nuclearmound (talk) 14:34, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean Up or Merge

message: On the page it says:
:The YaST Online Update servers (previously available only to paying SUSE Professional customers) are now free.
I used SuSE since version 9.1, and the YOU servers were free ... so it's not a change from "previously" (9.X Professional), and I don't think this statement should be kept in the article.
--AM088 21:01, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you sure that you did use the Home edition, not the Professional one? User:logixoul 16:07, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yast servers 

message: If I want to install openSUSE with a GNOME desktop, how many CDs do I need to download. I have heard that to install multi-CD distros you only need the first one. Is this true, or would the first CD only give KDE? Thanks, 0L1 - User - Talk - Contribs - 19:04 23 2006 (UTC)
:No this isn't true. No matter which desktop you choose to default to, you need all the CD's in order to install default packages. There is five CD's in the distribution. Also, remember that KDE is no longer the default GUI for openSUSE so it may not possibly be on the first disk (???). I installed the KDE environment when I installed openSUSE and I had to use Disk 1, Disk 2 and Disk 5 (?). Alternatively, you can just download the DVD .iso from a mirror server. If downloads are a problem, you can actually buy a magazine called openSUSE 10.1, which is published by Linux Format. If you need any more information regarding the Distro, drop a line on my User Talk Page. Alternatively visit the openSUSE wiki. --H a m m o 08:33, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I'm downloading them now. 0L1 - User - Talk - Contribs - 10:00 24 2006 (UTC)
=== Is this a candidate for some clean up? ===
* While it is true that you can burn the openSUSE DVD to spinning polycarbonate, and it would work, if your computer still has a DVD slot, most of the time I think this is done via USB drive. 
** Live distributions are DE specific, but otherwise it is a single ISO with a couple of DEs in it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrKC MD (talk • contribs) 22:59, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: No. of CDs

message: * While it is true that you can burn the openSUSE DVD to spinning polycarbonate, and it would work, if your computer still has a DVD slot, most of the time I think this is done via USB drive. 
** Live distributions are DE specific, but otherwise it is a single ISO with a couple of DEs in it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrKC MD (talk • contribs) 22:59, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this a candidate for some clean up? 

message: I have decided to put the four articles regarding SUSE up for merger. Failing this I have decided to undertake a complete rewrite of the openSUSE article as well as a complete rewrite of the SLES and the SLED articles. If anyone wishes to comment drop me a line on my talk page or here.--H a m m o 10:20, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: I have created the article entitled SUSE Linux Distibutions in order to provide an up to date resource for SUSE linux. I am a firm advocator for SUSE and hope that the general wikipedian public agrees on this article becoming the proper article for SUSE Linux. As of now I am on SUSE IRC channels trying to get professionals to clean up this article. To vote on whether this should be main page leave a yes or no comment under this comment --H a m m o 09:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New article 

message: I have, sometimes without logging in, updated and improved the content on this page.  A lot of the content was a simple merge from the SUSE Linux page, but much of it is an update on the pertinent information surrounding the openSUSE project.  I have taken steps to insure that both KDE and GNOME are represented equally.  Further, I have attempted to link readers within Wikipedia to more information where available and to the openSUSE site where appropriate.  Aodhagan 23:43, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated 

message: Perhaps screen shots of GNOME and KDE running under OpenSUSE 10.2 ??? Nuclearmound 19:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Screen Shots

message: any source back to Novell is a primary source. And if only Novell is writing about the distribution they "own" (is that right for open source software?) then it can't really be all that notable can it?
Garrie 05:36, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  sources 

message: I would just change the reference to 10.2 as the current stable release to say 10.3, but there are actually several other changes that need to be made throughout the article with regard to 10.3.  Enough of this information is over my head that I don't feel comfortable doing this.  So--count this as a call for someone to update this page!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.210.219.131 (talk) 20:17, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update for the release of 10.3 

message: This article doesn't seem to have so many editors updating it. We need to get rid of the "latest unstable release" part, put in an openSUSE 11.0 (maybe KDE 4) screenshot, and re-word the article accordingly. Althepal (talk) 04:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done -Althepal (talk) 04:38, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Update for openSUSE 11

message: Hi. I think this is something we might have to discuss. I cited "Benjamin Webber"'s blog to say there is no default in openSUSE 11. I'm also going to cite this old interview on the openSUSE website with "Stephan binner". If you're not convinced let's talk about it. 
PS. OpenSUSE rocks. --Kinst (talk) 23:55, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: All right. It's true. Check the install DVD and right there they say flat out that they don't recommend any one DE. But that doesn't change the fact that the KDE LiveCD is KDE 4.0 not KDE 3.5. I'm fine with not mentioning one as a default though. Althepal (talk) 05:36, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, I added that to the article (that there's no Live CD for KDE3). Consensus is good. :-) --Kinst (talk) 06:23, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good. :-) Althepal (talk) 18:36, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: openSUSE 11.0 no default KDE

message: The pronunciation on the OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux pages seems inconsistent. In fact, Googling seems to yield inconsistent opinions for how it should be said in English (let alone how it's pronounced in German...), including "rhymes-with-moose" as well as the "sounds like Suzy" that the SUSE Linux page seems to advocate. I personally say Zoo-zuh, but I am far from being an authority on the subject... 216.240.30.23 (talk) 22:58, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I said S-ooze until somebody corrected my pronunciation as su-see.209.195.94.234 (talk) 14:49, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

text: The previous video link is unavailable/private, here is a newer one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLdexZlVkAY Dalba 13:37, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:OpenSUSE-logo.svg

message: The next openSUSE Release is going to be 12.1, not 11.5 as stated in the graphics. The release naming scheme has been changed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.56.13.5 (talk) 07:49, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Version image is wrong  - next Release 12.1 

message: I have been working on a Linux Users Group resource page and need some
 conformity of all the Wiki Linux versions and distributions. Debian has an
 excellent template and I have made an RSS reader to pluck version data from
 the wiki page. Would be nice if I could get all of them to follow this method
 and my page could keep up to date with all the latest versions.  
 RSS source path
 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Latest_stable_software_release/Debian&feed=rss&action=history     
 RSS Template.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Latest_stable_software_release/Debian&action=edit  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Icarusfactor (talk • contribs) 02:45, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latest Version Layout 

message: For the version history section, should 11.2 be counted as supported as 11.4 is because of Evergreen support or should 11.4 be counted as EOLed because it has lost official support (announced only on mailinglist)? Evergreen info here:  Justashuman960 (talk) 18:32, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Evergreen

message: Is there a port for the ARM architecture? --79.224.231.57 (talk) 22:52, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Port for ARM 

message: The section should be improved by adding the critics from http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html about including non-free parts in the linux core. Linux-libre core cannot be used in OpenSUSE.88.69.124.50 (talk) 00:10, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I'd like to propose that Factory (openSUSE) is merged into openSUSE. The former page is merely a stub and given that it's just an internal development term nowadays instead of a separate distro, it should be merged into the main page.
*Support per WP:SIZERULE and absence of the potential of growth. After all, what more can one say about it? —Codename Lisa (talk) 05:52, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: *Hi. Does that entail renaming the article? Also, how much contents do you have at hand? —Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 05:08, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of Factory 

message: the article says "SaX2 was once integrated into YaST to change monitor settings, however with openSUSE 11.3 SaX2 has been removed", but does not explain what SaX2 is, and does not link to anything. 11.3 also is an old version - maybe this sentence can be removed ? --Richlv (talk) 10:57, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: SaX2 redirects to YaST, and YaST#Details says SaX2 (and the earlier  SaX) were the SuSE Advanced X configuration tool. IOW, SaX and SaX2 were used to configure the X software in function of your display hardware.  — Tonymec (talk) 23:39, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  sax2 

message: Could someone please add an explanation (if there is one!) of the crazy-looking Leap version numbers where 13 is followed by 42 and then 15?
This is very definitely confusing enough to be worth explaining.
(I thought for a moment I had ended up on a side-track with 42.3, especially as so little about 42 currently comes up on opensuse.org.)
PJTraill (talk) 22:20, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that the (silly, Douglas Adams) answer is given at OpenSUSE_version_history#Leap_42_series; it must be possible to summarise it or refer there. PJTraill (talk) 23:27, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explain weird version numbering 13-42-15! 

message: Weasel wording detected: "Tumbleweed is the flagship..."
Avoid peacock and weasel terms
--Mortense (talk) 22:36, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weasel wording 

message: Someone recently deleted the version timeline chart on the basis that it was too similar to the release history table.  I have restored the chart because the presence of both a table and a chart is consistent with the articles for other Linux distributions.
For example, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#Table_of_versions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Linux#Releases
Although the data presented in the table and timeline are basically the same, they do serve different purposes.  The table gives viewers access to precise release dates.  The timeline gives visual representation of the releases relative to one another, something which the average human cannot easily digest just from reading the dates in a table.
66.97.168.197 (talk) 02:52, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Version timeline 

message: Does anyone else agree that SUSE Linux should be merged to here? The distro basically turned into openSUSE while continuing the version number. Also SUSE Linux covers topics that should probably belong to SUSE because it talks about company/corporate stuff. Flakesosa (talk) 21:30, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. It should be merged to openSUSE. nutzboi (talk) 18:15, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from SUSE Linux?