Until the next openSUSE
Recently I'm thinking about installing opensuse to download, watch, write about anime. It have to be a perfect desktop, with full support of current internet and multimedia technology. And if you serious with Linux, then your choice might be Ubuntu, Mandriva, OpenSuse, or Redhat/CentOS.
OpenSuse is my favorite, they have strong company behind them, an active community, lots of extras and best software collection (of course this is my personal point of view). To get it up and running, I refer to how to forge article http://howtoforge.com/the_perfect_desktop_opensuse10.3. If you don't like gnome or prefer other desktop environment just choose different desktop environment at package selection stage.
Installation is a piece of cake :-) the hard part is enabling 3d desktop with ati radeon. I've try to download the driver from ati website, add ati repository, but the driver just won't work. It's not like I can't live without compiz, I just want to play Warcraft III with wine (you can't play without the correct display driver).
I think the display issue is enough for now. Time to put some gear on Firefox. To download anime we must prepare download manager. Linux already have wget, or kget (if you use kde/konqueror). But downloading with wget can be better with flashgot Firefox extension. If you prefer full download integration with firefox then take a look at DownThemAll. With DownThemAll we have full control of download. Queuing, Link, Filtering download etc. To download streaming media(movie or audio), the best (I think) is downloadhelper. It can download from any(if not almost) any streaming site like youtube.com, crunchyroll.com, esnips.com etc.
The only missing part is I can't schedule the linux box to power off when download finished. any suggestion?
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