How to move Ubuntu to openSUSE and not fail in the attempt
On Thursday December 7 and at about 10PM I came across that openSUSE 10.2 was released and I am very Ubuntu-Debian was not aware, which meant that my newly downloaded isos of SUSE Linux 10.1 were no longer as precious ... at least I had not come to CD (though it does not matter because the CDs are very cheap at only $ 500.oo COP unit, that in dollars is almost nothing ).
And if the matter is that it was considering changing linux distro, the reason is very simple, lately I have less time to walk as before addressing issues that are the distros that I commonly use, bone debian and derivatives (like Ubuntu), Ubuntu Dapper good but was a breakthrough in terms of usability and edgy do not really like me, I saw "change" as well as things that confused me at first sight and simply chose to take a step behind and go back to Dapper.
Download the iso image version 10.2 took me about 3 days because the repos were packed, and at the end the images were corrupt (or so said the MD5 hash) and preferred to keep things simple fix and download the torrent file and I put to download in the same place where I had the initial images so that recognized and downloaded a 20 meg lost, the MD5 sum check everything was correct.
Installation was quite simple, that if I take several hours to start the installation until I set the whole system (around 6 hours).
The issue is complicated configurations knew very nearly as small (and not so small) differences between openSUSE and Debian.
With regard to user settings and so I did not have much to rescue only my personal documents, the configurations of evolution, gaim, firefox, skype and my notes in tomboy also wanted to try as a desktop openSUSE by default and chose to copy my little things to the new user folder.
back to evolution just did this:
gconftool-2 -
shutdown evolution - force-shutdown
cd $ HOME tar
cjvf $ DIRCOPIA/evolution-backup.tar.bz2 - -exclude =. evolution / mail / imap. .gnome2_private/Evolution evolution
gconftool-2 - dump / apps / evolution> evolution_setting.xml
same
Gaim to copy cd $ HOME tar
- $ cjvf DIRCOPIA/gaim-backup.tar.bz2.
gaim and mozilla:
MOZHOME = "my staff mozilla dir"
mkdir-p $ DIRCOPIA / MozBackup
MOZHOME $ cd & & cp {signons.txt, key3.db, hostperm.1, cookies.txt, bookmarks.html} $ DIRCOPIA / MozBackup
good in the end it was only and to restore the entire evolution, which also extract the tar gconf should be informed of the setting we have.
gconftool-2 -
shutdown evolution - force-shutdown $ cd
DIRCOPIA
xjvf evolution-backup.tar.bz2 tar-C $ HOME /
gconftool-2 - unload evolution_setting . xml
gconftool-2 - load evolution_setting.xml
With that he was ready (in addition to about 30 things that certainly not interested in none).
was simply install additional software as I download the image NON-OSS as I was.
Use the same software in Ubuntu to do things was no problem, except for totem-xine that as far as I can see "no such package in openSUSE" so as always I'll stick with mplayer, but so far not been so easy, but after installing smart case of repos and additional software was solved, to manage the music I never liked the Rhythmbox (and thankfully does not bring openSUSE by default) and the banshee but never managed to do it attractive work properly but I install the Helix ™ Banshee and everything works perfect desktop system is to say the least spectacular, nothing ever was so easy, openoffice.org is installed and thesaurus and completely in English, is a fully polished desktop and device recognition has no complaints, even my card encore: -s Sundance Technology is recognized the first thing which has never happened to me, if I had to recompile the module with sources sundance manufacturer, printer and scanner, all without complications, it is true, an installation of ubuntu making 15 minutes, but ... 1 ยช
has none of the tools I use every day and settle the issue of multimedia codec is the same as in openSUSE "you to install it apart "
2 nd configuration post installation I deal in just 2 minutes, but because I have a series of script that I made it annoying to set up everything every time you reinstall, now, those script do it all for me (now I will do same for openSUSE:-D).
3 rd I was never able to run well the printer and scanner NEVER be moved with the installation of Ubuntu.
Single
detail against that very QT yast2 "ssssssssss ....... .... and very slow, for others it is a wonder, but I have understood that there is a project to carry all yast2 to gtk2 and just finished writing I'll look to see that.
Another thing against it are the daily cron too many pre-configured tasks and interrupt real work "so delete them all.
By default, the beagle starts with each user session is a great tool but not need it for almost nothing and it seems a waste of machine resources and the zen-updater, which I prefer that sort of thing done manually, but then removal from the home environment is amazingly fast.
In conclusion I have to say that openSUSE is an incredibly well-organized distribution, software highly polished and properly configured, the space used by the entire plant reaches about 4.4 GB and monodevelop having gnome installed (and a couple of more herramientillas ) but compared with Installing any other desktop OS is quite modest, is dazzling visual style and ease of use left me without words, is the easiest Linux distribution to use I've ever tested and because they say, is the best Linux distribution I've tried (and I've tried many distros:-D).
From now on only recommend openSUSE Linux as a desktop distribution.
still need more time to test how it behaves in the server (although I will not install on any production system, not yet )
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