OpenSUSE 10.2 Beta 2 / Evolution update

Evolution stays at 2.8.1 for Beta 2, same as it was in Beta 1, and works the same as it did in Beta 1, as near as I can tell.

Evolution is fast (and this is in a VM, so I hopeful it will really do well first level). It still looks to be more stable than even the Ubuntu 6.10 implementation. I have only been beating on it for about 8 hours, to be fair. All the pain points noted here in weblogs past with Evolution are not in evidence. It looks like, for now, that the company that owns Evolution actually released a pretty good version of it. This was *not* the case for me with openSUSE 10.1.

The VMware install VM install of openSUSE was a little smoother with Beta 2 than Beta 1, but still whacks out at guest VM IPL unless I pick the safe boot options. I have never seen a Linux guest act this under VMware before.

Another day of working with it has not made me like the new Gnome interface promulgated by Novell / openSUSE any better. It can mostly be fixed to look more like regular Gnome, so it's workable. And it is worth it to have a good Evolution install. If it stays this good, I'll switch either the FC6 install on the IBM T41 or the Ubuntu install on the desktop over to openSUSE 10.2 when it goes GA in December. I may go back to KDE though. If you are going to make Gnome look like MS Windows XP, might as well run KDE.

I finally remembered to check, and Firefox is 2.0 on Beta 2, so that is goodness.

That's it: probably my shortest post ever. Wanted to get this up before I was gone for a week, and before openSUSE updated again!