openSuse ver 10.2

system : 
 CORE / HOST system 
  AMD 64 bit Sempron 2600+( 1.6 Ghz )
  windows XP pro  SP2 ( 32 bit OS )
  1 GB DDR 400 MHz ram 
  80 GB hdd : 
  17 GB hdd FAT32 C:\
  57.2 GB NTFS d:\ ( where Vmware files for openSuse live )

( i use fat32 on c:\ due to the fact i can image off
the drive with easy ..  i found doing NTFS was too hard
to image off at times .. and it would f**k up badly
.... and i would not know about it to i went to reload
the image ... and it would not work :) )

 VMWARE / opensuse 10.2
  41 GB HDD
  256 ram
  network : 
  CD : ISO file 
  KDE desktop
  and gnome ( i think its installed )


what can i say 

The desktop :
ok its a tab .. odd to look at the desktop and work
out  to being with when you come from a FC and gnome
background in Linux

but its nice 
slick .. and simple and clean

i found it hard to get my head around it for 20 mins
like i hard due to there is no like start menu 
just “ computer “ where its got the start menu 

so its was just odd ... 
but once i found it and work out to find the appz and
everything in there it was nice and easy

but one of the things that blow me away 
that it had my Tv tuner cards i got 
like my old analog card :
pinnacle PCTV stereo (saa7134) card : worked

digital / analog  card :
compro videomate DVB-t200/300   : analog side only

a cannon Sp200 printer (USB) : hardware found
can't test : printer being a SOB

NetComm NB1200  (USB) : hardware found :
cant test it to download is done in about 9 hrs :  

olympus digital cam : hardware found : as data drive : working 


i will be happy for once a linux OS out there that can
handle half of my windows hardware
that no other linux i know of that can work with it 
like my USB modem / printer 

the digital cam / tv tuner cards have always worked in a way 




yast  : setup  run as root user




Yast : control center 
i found it was a better layout than the redhat
setup layout its gave you more control over what
you can do ... which is good if you doing the pc

setup via remote and you dont want
to do a lot of work by finding the files and
than eiditing them ... or what else there is to do ..