Brand new Suse 11.0 beta 3 for all
(Screenshot of KDE 4 in action :I hope to post some of my own desktop screenshots of KDE 4 soon, as soon I finish my Suse 11 download OR my friend Swaroop finishes the Fedora 9 with kde 4 download)
Hi guys,
The much awaited beta 3 release of Suse 11.0 was released today. You can read the release notes here. I immediately clicked download link in the download page to get my hands on the brand new kde 4. Check out some screenshots of kde 4 here.
If you want to try out Suse 11.0 with kde4 yourself, just head on to http://software.opensuse.org/developer and choose whether you want 32 bit / 64 bit(read the instructions ,just below the radio buttons, to understand which category you want to choose)
As a side note, i want to add some thing here; Nowadays people are crazy over the core 2 CPUs from Intel and X2 from AMD. So although these processors support 64 bit, I would suggest to go for 32 bit Suse distro, because, still a lot of softwares are written nativley for 32 bit(I am quite aware of the site www.64xsoft.com), the conversion to 64 bit memory address space, could result in a slight(very very small) time overhead.This is simple becuase, 64 bit processor show thier optimum power while running native 64 bit apps on a 64 bit platform( and i bet a lot of apps are going to be written(compiled) just for the 64 bit platform in the very near future)
This problem(?) doesn't come up, if you happen to use a 32bit apps on a 32 bit OS. So my humble suggestion is to go for a 32 bit distro, unless you want to google later on for "view flash videos in 64bit firefox+linux" !!
Hope to hear from you soon.
If you want to try out Suse 11.0 with kde4 yourself, just head on to http://software.opensuse.org/developer and choose whether you want 32 bit / 64 bit(read the instructions ,just below the radio buttons, to understand which category you want to choose)
As a side note, i want to add some thing here; Nowadays people are crazy over the core 2 CPUs from Intel and X2 from AMD. So although these processors support 64 bit, I would suggest to go for 32 bit Suse distro, because, still a lot of softwares are written nativley for 32 bit(I am quite aware of the site www.64xsoft.com), the conversion to 64 bit memory address space, could result in a slight(very very small) time overhead.This is simple becuase, 64 bit processor show thier optimum power while running native 64 bit apps on a 64 bit platform( and i bet a lot of apps are going to be written(compiled) just for the 64 bit platform in the very near future)
This problem(?) doesn't come up, if you happen to use a 32bit apps on a 32 bit OS. So my humble suggestion is to go for a 32 bit distro, unless you want to google later on for "view flash videos in 64bit firefox+linux" !!
Hope to hear from you soon.
Broad Band in Linux
(Page in screenshot:Home page of distrowatch.com)Enjoying broad band in Suse Linux
Hi guys,
Its 11:00 pm now, and the day was just superb. So many cool things happened. First of all, configuring Suse for broadband was just so cool. I just switched on my modem, and Suse immediately recognized and configured everything, Automatically!! And I just enjoyed broad band speeds in Suse. I also tried out download using KGet
Also, Today I went to Nithin's house. There I helped him a bit in installing Suse 10.2 and Vector Linux .
A 'wireless' dream ?
We have now connected the modem to usb, but the cable guys told us that, it is not safe to do so, since power surges from the cable line may damage the entire system(My PC), and hence it is better to connect the modem to the network card. But buying another network card(current network card is connected to my home network) did not seem like a viable option for me.
My dream is to set up a wireless network, and connect this modem to the wirless hub and through a dongle connect to the wireless hub? Cool huh ? Next few day, I would like to learn more about wireless connectivity and setting up a wireless network in my place. If you guys do get some material, do mail me, or post it as comment to this post.
bye guys
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Labels: broadband, distrowatch, friends, hub, suse, wireless
