For some time now my SuSe Linux 9.2 Professional installation has become slower and slower, partly because I filled it up with programs and partly because I messed around with the X-Server and KDE. I was pretty new to Linux and so I had some problems learning how things are done the Linux Way

Now I think I could manage a Linux System and keep it clean from birth to death (of the Notebook, not the OS )

I got a bit pissed off with SuSe because of the problems I had, and was therefore looking for another distro, but then I found openSuSe which looks nice and I can keep some features I really like in SuSe:

• SCPM: Profile Switching has never been as easy as with this tool.
• Yast: Although I started to hate its slowness, it’s a really good tool, aggregating all the functionality in a single place.

Before starting the installation I had to back my stuff up, especially the crucial data such as Thunderbird mail folder and Firefox settings. I just copied my entire homefolder to another machine, I’ll only have to remember not to overwrite some hidden folders (like the .kde folder…) when copying back.

Software list

Now it’s time to decide what to install. There are a few applications I absolutely need:

• Eclipse
• Quanta
• Amarok
• Kopete
• KvIRC