“As I outlined in my last blog entry, there was a definite sense
of urgency in migrating from Freespire 1.0 to something else. The
distribution I settled on was openSUSE Linux 10.1–mostly in part
from the fact that it was newly released this week, but also
because I hadn’t dabbled in SUSE products for a while and I wanted
to see what was what.“Thus, my Tuesday night was spent migrating to openSUSE Linux
10.1. This was the ‘Remastered’ edition, which the openSUSE team
released in response to several bug fixes, not the least of which
was a reportedly very buggy Software Update tool. I can’t compare
this version to the ‘Original’ 10.1, but I have the sense that the
outcome of this re-mix is a lot better than, say, the debacle of
‘New Coke’ back in the 1980s…”