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Putting openSUSE 10.2 through its paces |
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Monday, 11 December 2006 |
Sooner than anyone expected it, Novell Inc.'s openSUSE community Linux distribution project has delivered a new version: openSUSE 10.2. As a dyed-in-the-wool SUSE user since S.u.S.E Linux 4.2 first appeared in 1996, I decided to immediately give this version a try.
I'm far from the only one. According to Distrowatch's page hit ranking of Linux distributions, openSUSE has overtaken long time number one distribution Ubuntu over the past seven days.
First, I downloaded the latest openSUSE version from the openSUSE download site. This time around, I decided to download the DVD ISO image using HTTP. Chances are I would have downloaded it faster with BitTorrent and the new, potentially even faster Metalink download method. Even so, it took me only a few hours over my 3Mbps (Megabit per second) DSL line to receive the entire multiple gigabyte distribution.
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