Hi all,
I've been playing and using RH products until now.
I bought a HP ProBook 4740s laptop with preinstalled SLED 11 last year, got impressed by how good the HP-tweaked SLED worked on it and then installed Fedora with encrypted /home and /data partitions.
All good until I got fedup with the lack of possibility to switch between Intel and ATI video cards and the poor performance of Virtual Box on my lappie even if it has i7 CPU and 6Gb RAM (will be upgraded to 8 this week).
The 14.6 official ATI driver for linux does not recognize my video card so instalation fails. Even on Windows seems that the only driver that allows switching between the 2 gpus is the one provided by HP.
What I want is:
- best performance for virtual machines - might switch to QEMU if it supports snapshots / base VMs (vmWare Workstation is too expensive and the Player lacks these options)
- the possibility to switch between Intel and ATI card based on power profile or some other global setting (looking forward for linux games from gog.com :) )
- latest versions for Firefox, Thunderbird, GnuCash, LibreOffice, development tools (Eclipse, Oracle JDK, Nodejs) and good support for multimedia
- encrypted partitions
- KDE or a lighter gui than KDE and Gnome or Gnome 3 but not the ugly Gnome from SLED (not a must but a nice to have)
I'm contemplating at 2 solutions:
1. install openSUSE 11, install drivers provided by HP and then upgrade to openSUSE 13 (still have doubts that the drivers will work on new kernel version).
2. restore SLED 11, redo and encrypt desired partitions, activate license, update to latest (hopefully it will bring some updated packages for FF and LibreOffice) and then use openSUSE repos for the needed updated applications (and continue SLED subscription).
I'm not familiar with the SUSE ecosystem so I'm not sure which one is most appropriate to get what I want (even if both involve leaving RH). I restored SLED on a new Seagate SSHD drive, played a little with parititioning and got angry of not beeing eble to mount my Fedora encrypted ext4 partitions (doesn't seem to know ext4?)
Thanks
I've been playing and using RH products until now.
I bought a HP ProBook 4740s laptop with preinstalled SLED 11 last year, got impressed by how good the HP-tweaked SLED worked on it and then installed Fedora with encrypted /home and /data partitions.
All good until I got fedup with the lack of possibility to switch between Intel and ATI video cards and the poor performance of Virtual Box on my lappie even if it has i7 CPU and 6Gb RAM (will be upgraded to 8 this week).
The 14.6 official ATI driver for linux does not recognize my video card so instalation fails. Even on Windows seems that the only driver that allows switching between the 2 gpus is the one provided by HP.
What I want is:
- best performance for virtual machines - might switch to QEMU if it supports snapshots / base VMs (vmWare Workstation is too expensive and the Player lacks these options)
- the possibility to switch between Intel and ATI card based on power profile or some other global setting (looking forward for linux games from gog.com :) )
- latest versions for Firefox, Thunderbird, GnuCash, LibreOffice, development tools (Eclipse, Oracle JDK, Nodejs) and good support for multimedia
- encrypted partitions
- KDE or a lighter gui than KDE and Gnome or Gnome 3 but not the ugly Gnome from SLED (not a must but a nice to have)
I'm contemplating at 2 solutions:
1. install openSUSE 11, install drivers provided by HP and then upgrade to openSUSE 13 (still have doubts that the drivers will work on new kernel version).
2. restore SLED 11, redo and encrypt desired partitions, activate license, update to latest (hopefully it will bring some updated packages for FF and LibreOffice) and then use openSUSE repos for the needed updated applications (and continue SLED subscription).
I'm not familiar with the SUSE ecosystem so I'm not sure which one is most appropriate to get what I want (even if both involve leaving RH). I restored SLED on a new Seagate SSHD drive, played a little with parititioning and got angry of not beeing eble to mount my Fedora encrypted ext4 partitions (doesn't seem to know ext4?)
Thanks