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Thanks again. SM11, Mint and Mageia are installed and running fine. I was previously trying to install guest additions whilst running them as a LiveCD - didn't realise they needed 'installing'.

Managed to get Vuze to start downloading the suse .vdi, but the rate dictated over four hours. No way. And the flashing ads - headache-worthy. Any recommendations for a torrent client? I'll try openSUSE the conventional way later.

Cheers again.

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I've had good luck with Deluge...it's in the M11 CRs

Thanks for that - it worked straight away. But how do I stop it taking several hours to download when normally 650mb takes a few+ minutes?

On the lower half, click on the "Files" tab...you can change the priority of each file. Seems to help some, but the speed of download is ultimately dictated by the number of people seeding and their link speeds.

Below is a link to download the Suse vdi from dropbox, the download will be a lot faster than a torrent

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28503495/Virtua ... com%5D.zip

I will do a Mepis KDE 4.7.4-1 vdi,

Too true! It's the main reason I haven't been involved with torrents. Download speed 6.25Mb/s, upload speed 0.37Mb/s - it's really 'asymmetric'.

Phil

Mine.

I've had OpenSUSE 12.1 (KDE version) installed in VirtualBox for a while, starting with one of the RCs (using Mepis 11 as the host).

I haven't been impressed enough with 12.1 to replace my hard disk install of OpenSUSE 11.4 (using the Edu Life release) with it though (my primary desktop is setup so I can boot into Win 7, Mepis 11, Mint or OpenSUSE), as I spent a lot of time tweaking OpenSUSE 11.4 fonts by installing newer freetype2 packages with subpixel hinting enabled, as I didn't like the default font setup.

But, I am considering downloading OpenSUSE 12.1 Edu Life, as it was just released on January 1, and it's got a *lot* more software preinstalled compared to the "vanilla" OpenSUSE releases. Because they waited this long before releasing the Edu Life edition, I suspect it's been tweaked a lot more, too (not to mention that it's probably got all of the latest updates already installed, whereas if you use the standard OpenSUSE 12.1 release, you'll have a lot of updates you'll need to install yourself).

It's a pretty large download. But, I'll probably go ahead and download it and see how it runs. Here's the distrowatch.com announcement for it (and you'll see download links in the announcement):

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07053

So, if you want lots of "goodies" preinstalled, you may want to consider the Edu Life release instead.

A HowTo on the font fix might help some. I never liked the way fonts appeared in OpenSuse.

I'm not sure which tutorial I used. But, the muxlocker repo I found mentioned in this article via a quick google search sounds familiar:

http://susestarter.blogspot.com/2011/03 ... fonts.html

I'm running Mepis 11 right now. Let me boot into OpenSUSE 11.4 and I'll see if I might have bookmarked anything I did at the time.

But, if memory serves, I had a lot more issues trying to get everything working, even though the steps I'm seeing in tutorials sound easy. ;-)

Edit:

I just rebooted into OpenSUSE 11.4 (running in it right now), and that is the same page I had bookmarked and used for updating my fonts. It looks like the article has been updated since I used it though, and I can remember having some issues when I was making the changes, and I ended up tweaking a lot of the settings for fonts in some of the system settings areas, too (in order to get fonts where they looked good to me).