I can’t believe I am still running a self-serving tech/nerd blog this many years later.. I’ve gone from a text based personal resume, to an Open Source system I created to share my ported software (to unpopular platforms, such as Solaris x86 and MacOS X (at the time)), then eventually opting to no longer support my tools in the ideal of making money by writing code – exporting that and moving into another system (after testing serveral others). Gee, alot happens in ten years.

In other news, I’ve been using OpenSUSE 11.0 since late June on a testing/dev system, and it is incredibly stable. Not only does it offer a newer kernel base (2.6.25.x), but it touts KDE4, KDE 3.5.9, and GNOME 2.2. Yep, you can roll your own; this isn’t Xubuntu.

The whole system is incredibly stable, and as much as I can not stand the over-engineered ‘Zypper’ system, ‘Smart’ is quite comparable to apt, and is just as fast.

Despite the Zypper hate already, it has some great new BSD-like features such as ‘dist-upgrade’, which should FINALLY offer OpenSUSE the ability to upgrade (at least between minor revisions) without doing a reformat/reinstall. Yes, SuSE users, it’s no longer 1996!

It’s incredibly stable, well-supported, and is leaps above what Ubuntu offers – and I admit that, being a Debian user for years. My laptop had the proper drivers, and could even sleep to RAM without messing around with kernel internals.

It’s about time; OpenSUSE has made Linux closer to being entirely desktop ready than even the ‘Friendly’ Ubuntu. Game’s on.