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Re: anybody tried the opensuse 10.3 version?
by Sebastian on Wednesday 06/Feb/2008, @06:18

The problem with Suse is that applications are not at default UNIX places (eg. /opt vs. /usr/bin). There are systems executables where you may follow a loooong chain of symlinks in order to find the right file. And sax2 is broken in 10.3 - please, never use it.

However, OpenSuse and Fedora are the currently best polished Linux systems, I agree. I tried Kubunto once - never again. I'll stick with Suse

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Re: anybody tried the opensuse 10.3 version?
by Bobby on Wednesday 06/Feb/2008, @06:24

"The problem with Suse is that applications are not at default UNIX places (eg. /opt vs. /usr/bin). There are systems executables where you may follow a loooong chain of symlinks in order to find the right file."

That might interest the technies but for a normal user all that counts is that the distro looks good and works fine and there is where Suse seems to get better every time.

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Re: anybody tried the opensuse 10.3 version?
by Sebastian on Wednesday 06/Feb/2008, @09:41

Well, we implement software for cross platform applications in our company. Imagine how people cry sometimes...

It is not just about KDE, it's the rest as well...

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Re: anybody tried the opensuse 10.3 version?
by rik on Wednesday 06/Feb/2008, @10:05

I was surprised there was no tool to chase down symlinks. I just googled and found an answer and proposed solution.

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=594821

(also as Billie noted, KDE4 is under /usr in openSUSE)

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KDE4 app locations
by Bille on Wednesday 06/Feb/2008, @08:40

If you try openSUSE KDE 4 packages, you'll notice that KDE4 is in /usr for FHS compliance.

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Re: KDE4 app locations
by blacky on Wednesday 06/Feb/2008, @09:56

Same for Gnome. They have completely eliminated /opt AFAIK.

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Re: anybody tried the opensuse 10.3 version?
by whatever noticed on Wednesday 06/Feb/2008, @16:01

"The problem with Suse is that applications are not at default UNIX places (eg. /opt vs. /usr/bin)."

this has been changed in suse 10.3: gnome and kde4 are now in /usr, while kde3 will remain in /opt for now.

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