OpenSuSE 10.1 First look

I replaced my SuSE 10 64-bit with SuSE 10.1 64-bit yesterday evening.

Noise

The main problem that I had with SuSE 10 was that on my Athlon 64 HP a1130n machine, it always made a lot more noise than when running Windows. WinXP 32-bit & 64-bit were both almost entirely silent, except when really pushing the CPU. Using Linux it made a lot of fan noise just starting up X.
The noise was reduced by running the ATI binary driver. The PC was then far more responsive and far quieter.

Upgrade

Well that problem was been solved with SuSE 10.1. It all felt very slick.
The installation was smooth, much improved since 10.0.
What impressed me the most was the GNOME setup: the theme looks amazing, the layout polished & overall much faster. The Beagle search indexed my /home directory and seems very responsive in searching through thousands of files that I had installed.

I haven't need the ATI driver yet, I noticed that SuSE 10.1 uses X.org 6.9.0 which the binary driver does not yet support. But as of now, I don't need it. X feels so smooth and the PC so fast & silent that I don't need it yet.

I'm very happy with this upgrade, one of the best Linux based OS I've used.

SuSE 10.1