One of openSUSE 10.3 key feature is zypper, a new package manager for openSUSE distribution. It aims to replace YaST, which is the old-stable-but-slow package manager shipped within openSUSE. At least, it was zypper’s original aims. In openSUSE 10.3, zypper’s performance was very bad. As a Debian user, at that moment, I realized that apt, Debian package manager is the best package manager . I’ve heard about portege, but unfortunately I have no time to install Gentoo.

openSUSE developers was very kind and responsive to user’s opinion, so they rewrote zypper code to perform faster. They claimed that the new zypper is three times faster than the old one. When I upgraded to openSUSE 11.0, their claim seems become reality.

Well, for you all new openSUSE users like me, openSUSE tutorials website provide some very good tutorials. For a quick zypper reference, you can see it here.

Hope that’s help..

btw, if you want to post blog directly from you desktop, just install drivel:
#zypper in drivel