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ImageFinding a quick solution for your problems in any distribution is the main reason to make you rely on it. Therefore, the major distributions have many ways to provide support to their users. Among them, IRC support provides a way to communicate quickly and more interactively with users.

In this article, I will make a comparison between the popular linux distributions in IRC support. I am not going to talk about how many questions have been answered, or how helpful the answers are; instead, I will focus in two things: how many nicknames each time are in the channel and the channel activity.

ImageI have switched to OpenSUSE 11.2 recently. Although, I've enabled anti-aliasing option from System Settings panel, I notice that fonts aren't displayed smoothly and they are ugly.Two days ago, I found the solution for this problem. It is easy just upgrade the freetype2 packages to use subpixel hinting feature.

Image" The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.2.  openSUSE 11.2 includes new versions of GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, the Linux kernel, and many, many more updates and improvements. In 11.2 you’ll find more than 1,000 open source desktop applications. openSUSE also includes a full suite of server software and a rich selection of open source development tools. "

 

 

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While openSUSE community is preparing to release openSUSE 11.2 in the next month, I decided to discover what's new in openSUSE 11.2. I downloaded the RC1 image and started playing with it. In short, it is fast, stable and beautiful. I think the decision to move to 8 months release is a wise decision. It gives more time to build and test the software. But the most exciting decision is putting KDE as the default desktop environment. OpenSUSE 11.2 is the best KDE distribution (IMHO).

In this post I will review the most 10 important features in the default openSUSE 11.2 desktop: