Guess what I’m doing at 3:20 AM on this fine holiday? Right, I’m installing one of my three machines, once again. This time one of the discs had an … uhm … fatal failure, actually it has a hole through it’s middle. Fortunately its on my testing server, which anyway has become so noisy due to the CPU-Fan lately that I have to turn it off at night, and no important data has been lost. Since I have to install it anyway I figured it would be nice to give the new version 10.2 of openSuse a try. At first I have to say, that not too much changed since version 10.1, but then why would you change something that is working fine? The enhancements are in the tiny details, my favorite being that they replaced the old (slow) Software Management tool they had in YaST with a much faster ZDM. But thinking about it, it may actually be just as slow as the old one, except that the new one shows me some activity, progress bars keep filling at incredible speed, and it feels faster, this is what Windows was always good at, letting the user believe something is happening (even if it’s not…). Good news for the show offs out there too: the really great Xgl and Compiz enhancements are contained in any standard installation, letting you make the Mac OS users cry, really really simple (those rain effects are just to die for). Great news for developers too: Eclipse is there with it’s Calisto 3.2 version, which I was really hoping for. Ok, by now the installation is finished and I’m looking forward to test it as a server, I’m already using the Desktop version for about a week on my development machine. Hope to see some of you in Linux-Land soon ^^