Quick Start Guide

the cursor at the rough direction of your region and left-click to zoom. Now choose
your country or region by left-clicking. Right-click to return to the world map.
Figure 1.4 Clock and Time Zone
To set up the clock, choose whether the Hardware Clock is Set to UTC. If you run
another operating system on your machine, such as Microsoft Windows, it is likely
your system uses local time instead. If you only run Linux on your machine, set the
hardware clock to UTC and have the switch from standard time to daylight saving
time performed automatically.
If a network is already congured, the time is automatically synced via Network Time
Protocol (NTP) with a time server. Click Change to either alter the NTP settings or to
Manually set the time. See Chapter 25, Time Synchronization with NTP (↑Reference)
for more information on conguring the NTP service. When nished, click Accept to
continue the installation.
1.9 Desktop Selection
In openSUSE, you can choose from various desktops. The major ones, KDE and
GNOME, are powerful graphical desktop environments similar to Windows. Find infor-
mation about these in the KDE User Guide (↑KDE User Guide) and the GNOME User
Guide (↑GNOME User Guide). This step is skipped when installing from a LiveCD,
since this medium is already precongured to either use KDE or GNOME.
If you prefer a dierent desktop, choose Other for more options. The XFCE Desktop
and the LXDE Desktop are fast and lightweight desktop environments suitable for
modest hardware. With Minimal X Window, install a graphical window manager that
allows for running stand-alone X applications and console windows but does not
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