Holy Release Candidate, Batman! It's supposed to work?

I've been trying out this release candidate for openSUSE. Certainly not any kind of formal testing, or preparation for a review, or with positive intent to switch from Fedora.

Mostly, I wanted to try out KDE 4, on a distribution where it is a first-class citizen (not Fedora, not Ubuntu... not Mandriva either).

So, some time ago, I burned a 32-bit KDE Live CD. The media I used is printable, but I didn't print a label, I just wrote on it with a sharpie... the media seems questionable, since Fedora always tripped out a little bit when I ran Live CDs from it. Maybe the stack is warped or something.


I tried it on the quad-core box, it ran so slowly, I thought it didn't work. Turns out I was wrong.

I tried it on the Compaq laptop I got form the Weldy Family, because it had their Windows Install on it, and I didn't know the password... It worked... sort of. I think the automatic configuration at the end of the install didn't work, because the desktop I got still had the "Install" icon, and a reboot after that said that the Installation didn't complete.

I tried it on the quad-core box again, and got similar results. I finally got my head wrapped around LVM and the Expert partitioner too.

I tried it on a Compaq Evo N600c this morning, and boom -- Install icon is gone, sexy desktop is there, prompted to configure for updates by adding repositories... This might go well. The release is in a day or two. I'm going to give it an official shot on some more machines... maybe write up a review.