Upgraded to Opensuse 11.3

Why it seems that upgrading has higher chance of something not working well, compared to fresh install?

How is it the Opensuse 11.3? Great. Installation went great, repository added with no problem, update the software from the update repository with no errors. No problem whatsoever.

The problem that I got is actually from KDE itself. Several big problems:

1. Whenever I got out from sleep (hibernate to disk), it will stuck on KDE's screen lock, without me being able to do anything except to turn it off forcefully. So to circumvent this, I make sure that KDE's screen lock is not enabled at all time (just to make sure I will not get any of this problem anymore), maybe a future update will solve this problem

2. digiKam software can't rotate any of my photos, which is really annoying. After doing some research, some people in the forums said that some library failure or something. So I'm still waiting for update.

3. Network Manager died on me. I didn't have the time to fix this yet, so I'll use ifconfig method for the time being, besides most of the time I use my computer in my office using office's wi-fi, so it's not a big hassle to change the configuration through ifconfig now and then.

Other than that, everything is great. The file indexing is working now. Both strigi and nepomuk service are online, and they indexed my files in a matter of hours (I only got 50-60 GB of files, that's not including kernel, software, and stuffs).

I'm finding myself using more and more alt-F2 function, which brings up the dialog box to search for whatever things on your machine, from bookmarks, to yast2 components. Just type in the dialog box, press the "tab" button to navigate without taking your hands off the keyboard and press "enter" to select.

My dropbox is still working, even though I'm still using the previous release. All my software are still there and working, without any single re-install whatsoever. So the upgrade is pretty much great and easy. Try that with windows. Amount of upgrade time, 1.5 hours, amount of updating all the software from update repository take quite some time depending on your internet connection, I leave mine the whole night and I got myself a fully updated software in the morning. I actually taking for granted the easiness of Opensuse repository. It's so easy to find software, update, game,........ nice. On the opposite, I actually paid someone to upgrade my office's window's machine. Why? because I can't stand waiting for it to finish when I upgrading windows, one by one, OS,  re-install drivers (it's right there, can't you see it), re-install software..... ups, not compatible with new version of windows, need to get it from internet, bla bla bla. I choose to upgrade linux rather than windows at any day, so I can sleep. Wake up, and everything is done. Opensuse (and other distro I might add) is definitely  at the right  steps on this one. Keep on the good work. So i can catch more sleep.

I hope Opensuse will still be on planet earth for years to come, till I died at the very least. That Novell bought by Attachmate, makes my heart racing for a while, and makes me frantically looking for alternatives in case Opensuse is gone, but as always, I went back to Opensuse. Waiting for 11.4 with high expectation, especially with rolling release. If the rolling release is well, then I'll update all my office's opensuse with 11.4 and let it update themselves till the end of time.

Till next time. Happy Opensuseing.