Today I received a free boxed version of openSUSE 11.0: thanks a lot, openSUSE and Novell! I’m running and experimenting with the system inside a VM for some days now actually and it really has some amazing features and polish. I will definately put this on the laptop really soon, maybe it will replace Ubuntu as the main OS…
Update: I had to modify a lot of .menu, .directory and .desktop files to get a nicer (upstream-like) menu. Can we please have this out-of-the-box in 11.1?
Update 2: The Build Service is just incredible. I used it to create some updated bluetooth-related packages (bluez-gnome, obex-data-server, nautilus-sendto). You can find them here. Still not 100% satisfied with bluetooth on 11.0 though.
Thanks for your contributions Michael.
openSUSE is using branding packages right now. If there is no gnome-branding-upstream package you could file a bug so maintainers will create it.
Branding packages work like this:
– application packages do not contain any .menu/.desktop files
– two branding packages are created branding-openSUSE and branding-upstream
– branding-openSUSE is installed by default, but user could install branding-upstream package (conflicting with other branding-* packages) and thus switch various setting configurations