OpenSuse 12.3 with Cinnamon

scottalanmiller

My favorite Linux desktop distribution has long been OpenSuse and more recently my new favorite desktop environment has been Cinnamon from the Linux Mint project. For the last few releases, OpenSuse has been providing a Cinnamon repository but has not yet built it into the base distribution. I am hopeful that Cinnamon will become a standard environment choosable during the installation process but until then we can very easily enable and install it with just a few commands. The Cinnamon repository is an official OpenSuse repo so no need to deal with third parties.

All we need to do is to download the repo file and tell OpenSuse to install Cinnamon, logout and select Cinnamon while logging back in.

cd /etc/zypp/repos.d/
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cyberorg:/cinnamon/openSUSE_12.3/home:cyberorg:cinnamon.repo
sudo zypper in cinnamon

That’s it, all done. Now just log out of your current session and when you log back in, choose Cinnamon.

Originally posted in 2012 on my Linux blog here: http://web.archive.org/web/20140825114908/http://www.scottalanmiller.com/linux/2013/03/17/opensuse-2-3-with-cinnamon/

KOOLER

opensuse forever

openbsd + xfce is another one ;))

scottalanmiller

I can honestly say that I have never run OpenBSD with XFCE. Or any GUI, for that matter.

KOOLER

@scottalanmiller said in OpenSuse 12.3 with Cinnamon:

I can honestly say that I have never run OpenBSD with XFCE. Or any GUI, for that matter.

it's really easy with a modern youtube howto guides

p.s. you have to have a good reason to run openbsd however back to gui... i'm spoiled with windows nt so if I can do guy I do gui and no cli

KOOLER

@KOOLER "do guy" = "do gui" LOL