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johnhudson · LXF regular Joined: Wed Aug 03, 2005 2:37 pm Posts: 777

chromium is in the Contrib repository; you can find it by going on the OBS or adding the Contrib repository to YaST when it will appear.

Whatever may be said about the Chrome version for openSUSE, it hasn't been packaged on the OBS which is presumably why it won't run with the standard openSUSE distribution.

Incidentally, those who maintain chromium are very prompt with updates; I normally get them the same day as they are announced for Chome.

Marrea · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:13 pm Post subject:

nordle · LXF regular Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:56 pm Posts: 1497

From what I remember, which isn't much, chromium is the source for chrome. Chrome is just the bells and whistles google official branch.

Chromium is the vanilla before the rum and raisin has been added.

I think its also missing a lot of the "were google and were going to spy on you and report back your data" stuff.

Again, most of the above I may have imagined. But I've used Iron, essentially chromium binaries for windows, and I see it has a self contained linux version....brb

EDIT:

and posting the edit from srware iron (chrome 5.0.381). It imported everything from Firefox, including passwords, and I'm posting from it within 2mins. Its certainly quick to load web pages!
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Rhakios · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:29 pm Post subject:

Finally got it installed on my HP2133 Mini-Note on Monday (which takes a long time due to the Via C7M processor). Testing things out last night, I can't get wireless to work through either the network manager applet or the traditional ifup. Moreover, it fails silently, not letting me know that it can't connect (usually one sees an error message).
I'm pretty fed up with this release of openSUSE. I will give it one last try on my 64-bit experimental box if I get enough time at the weekend. Sad

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Ram · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:11 pm Post subject:

Head over here for a review from Tuxradar.
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Rhakios · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:40 pm Post subject:

Right-ho! I've now got openSUSE 11.3 installed on test-box.

Everything is as it should be - what more can I say?

Oh go on, one thing then: it was nice to see the Nouveau drivers OOTB, but the proprietary Nvidia drivers deliver a considerable performance improvement.
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nordle · LXF regular Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:56 pm Posts: 1497

Do the nouveau drivers manage to vsync correctly like the nvidia drivers?

I ask because ATI still don't seem to have built a Linux driver that manages to get this right on anything newer than 2 years.
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Rhakios · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 6:28 pm Post subject:

Captain_Tux · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:48 pm Post subject:

johnhudson · LXF regular Joined: Wed Aug 03, 2005 2:37 pm Posts: 777

The main advantages I have found using KDE is that most things now have working KDE4 versions and that a lot of the widgets like Trash and the Device Notifier have been tidied up and improved - but you have to get rid of the KDE4.3 ones.

It also boots faster.

However, I and others have experienced some screen freezes which I did not experience in 11.2. Various hypotheses have been put forward but nothing has been identified that seems to be common to all those who have experienced them.

So unless you desperately want something that is only in KDE4.4, you may be better off sticking with 11.2.

Rhakios · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 7:23 pm Post subject:

ethernet · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 7:45 pm Post subject: