Daemon Dancing in the Dark

Simple SUSE

An rpm I wish I knew of when I first installed openSUSE, konvenientSUSE does all the basics to make openSUSE truly usable. Like many Linux distros, openSUSE maintains a "Chinese wall" between the official release and many more-or-less closed pieces often found in the Windows world, like license MP3 compressions and Flash. There's a constant push 'n' pull between providing a "free" distribution and providing a usable one and trying to find a balance between them.

This looks like a nice compromise. The official release doesn't have things like DVD playback (licensed and copyrighted encryption), Java, and Flash. This rpm quickly and easily purports to add them to a base 10.2 installation, as well as adding in some recommended 3rd party package repositories and closed source display drivers. I still need to try and play with the ATI proprietary drivers.

 konvenientSUSE KDE-Apps.org

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