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I always found Suse to be a bit slow on Peg2
No slower than Ubuntu or Debian ever were.
Actually 11.0 is one of the best Linux distros I've ever seen, I am hoping 11.1 comes out on time because for all intents and purposes it should be an amazing distribution.
As for packaging, Peter noted that it uses a new system (zypper, libzypp and an insanely fast dependency solver, underneath the YaST GUI which still stayed as bad as it ever was, but who uses that?).
Among other features it allows delta RPMs (which means if you have 11.0.1-1 of a package installed and you update to 11.0.1-2, but only 2 files out of 1000 changed, it only has the two changed files, meaning download is faster and installation is faster) and also LZMA compression for packages which means decompression is far faster, compression is smaller, and uses less memory to work.
I gladly gave up compiling my own stuff on Gentoo for this, being able to update things within seconds, or waiting an hour for a full source download and compile.. I would rather use SuSE :)
Booting from the NET CD is really easy; just burn it (it's only ~72MB so kind of a waste of a CD, but..) and boot it with
boot suseboot/inst32 language=fr install=
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/opensuse/dist ... 0/repo/oss
Obviously you can do this manually but, this is much quicker by far. It will drag the installation files (~40MB) into memory, mount and begin the installation. Please select a local SuSE mirror for faster operation :)
If you have less than 512MB you'll need to add swap space but it's a Pegasos so you should have no worries. I also found some troubles with "Automatic Configuration" so I turn this off, and go through the extra 3 or 4 steps after the install.