OpenSUse 10.3

With the Greenery Opensuse stands out from the rest of the Distros who mostly use Blue.
The installation was smooth, except for a message stating that the Openoffice Calc package could not be installed. Probably corrupt media. But this happened only on the nForce motherboard, the ATI motherboard had no hiccups. The installation routine allows setting the display resolution right at the beginning which is a good thing.
The KDE start menu is replaced with Suse's own menu. This is a bit laborious to navigate, and probably will be trashed as soon as the user finds out how to revert to the default KDE menu.
One of the adorable qualities of Opensuse is that it accomodates the lazy user, even while keeping security in mind. By allowing the root to have a one letter password, unlike the rest of the distros, Opensuse makes the usage of a normal user account more tolerable. Unfortunately, it insists on the username being atleast 2 letters long. But that a very minor niggle.
Open suse offers two forgettable terms : YAST and SAX. One of them is for the hardware management, and the other is for the software management, I think.
Hardware management is easy. I could reset the monitor resolution easily from the control panel.
It too couldn't handle Opera installation. Not even offering a reason for the failure - double clicking on the rpm launched the application manangement program, that checks the rpm database and closes. That's it. No further feedback.
It includes Ktorrent, a bit torrent client, so that is a definite plus. One issue which I noticed in Ktorrent, which was also evident when using Azureus in Knoppix, was that torrents tended to get corrupted AFTER they completed download. An ISO would be downloaded, after download it would be checked, a few pieces would be found corrupted and trashed, these would be redownloaded, and agains the checking program will find corrupt pieces, and this process would continue. Even torrents that passed the check would inexplicably end up with corrupt pieces. Is Ext2 to blame?
This was the first time I'd seen such an event, since on utorent and Azureus in windows, I had not faced this problem.
No network monitoring applet. I am beginning to think that this is because KDE is innately not capable of doing this, rather than due to an oversight by Opensuse.