[tech] OpenSUSE on Pinball

[Bob Adamson]

Hi All,

Pinball needed a reinstall after the camp, and I decided I was sick of 
Ubununununtu. OpenSUSE had sufficiently impressed me when I used its 
livecd, so it got installed on pinball. Mmmmm...green.

The only significant problems I encountered were that OpenSUSE doesn't 
start services such as nfs or autofs when you start using them. There was 
also a problem with compiz not working properly because compiz-manager 
wasn't being started - thanks to David Gow for helping resolve this 
problem. Anyway, all of this has been added to the OpenSUSE section on 
http://wiki.ucc.asn.au/SOE

Most users haven't even noticed that it's a different install, so it can't 
be that bad. It certainly comes with a lot more out of the box than Ubuntu 
or Debian - I only had to install 5 things on top of what it came with.

Andrew Adamson
UCC President
bob at ucc.asn.au

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