FreeBSD

After the recent issues I had been having with Windows XP I decided to give SUSE another whirl. I've had pretty good success getting everything working in the past (with the exception of the SATA sil driver). The initial install went well enough however I appear to have burned a corrupt medium. I didn't look into this deeply to see if perhaps it was due to a problem on the site where I downloaded the ISO from or if it lost integreity during the download. A nifty feature that comes on the openSUSE disk is an integrity check. Although it's too late at that point - but at least you know if something is fucked up. A good heads up would be to use a checksum on the iso after you download it so you don't waste time burning a bunk copy to disk.

The install went quick enough - able to repartition NTFS drives. NTFS read worked out of the box. NTFS write was working easily enough with NTFS-3g driver. Only real PITA problem is when installing RPMs the zypp installer hangs. So I suggest installing RPMs from the command line - or better yet stick to using repositories.

3D Acceleration works for the most part but Cedega fails a test. I decided to take the easy way out since WINE was having some issues (meh only $5/mo for Cedega and their interface makes setting stuff up a snap). I need to fiddle with the driver a bit more. I'll maintain updates here.

Overall I'm stoaked with this install. Everything is snappy.

OpenSUSE ISOs
OpenSUSE NTFS-3g Install Guide
OpenSUSE Repositories