maandag 5 december 2011

openSUSE 12.1 some experiences and MySQL

openSUSE 12.1 was released some 2 weeks ago and i must say it has been a welcome change of scenery! The new LibreOffice works just that little bit smoother, the desktop feels more responsive, the startup time is severely faster, in other words, its really nice! GNOME 3 looks very promising from a tabletpoint of view, but after 3 days of wrestling with the new Shell interface i decided to go conservative and switch back to KDE 4.7, which is a lot less buggy than the previous 4.x releases thusfar. The only real trouble is, Dolphin doesnt seem to work with SFTP/Fish at the moment, there is a bug open for that (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715689 ). Second observation is that Acrobat Reader seems to be even more resourcehungry than usual (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731896). Third real trouble is that the MySQL my.cnf config file has had some changes and the new YaST policy is that existing files are no longer overwritten, which in my case resulted in a my.cnf.rpmnew file and a non working MySQL. After applying my changes to the rpnnew file and ditching the old my.cnf it seems to work again. Eclipse has some major issues with some debugsetting in KDE 4.7, which was accidently left in place by the packager (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731075 ), but after changing that on startup, its just as smoot as ever! All in all, it's a very nice release and besides those points mentioned above, i've had a very entertaining ride so far, it seems that the releases are getting more stable every time! Many thanks to all those great people at openSUSE!