i would recommend PCLinuxOS, or you can stick with openSUSE, but i tried to install SimplyMEPIS on my external hard drive, and for some reason, maybe because i didnt put the bootloader on my main hard drive, i don't know, but it never booted up.
PCLinuxOS on the other hand, when i first got it, (remember it was the first linux i ever tried) i decided to install it to my hard drive. it was the easiest Linux HDD installation i have used, and it booted up correctly and never had any errors. on that hard drive i had Win98, WinXP, and PCLinuxOS, and the GRUB bootloader, which automatically comes with the PCLinuxOS installation, handled all the OS's perfectly.
so here's what i would suggest:
wait a month or so and keep using openSUSE, if you like it, stick with it, but i think in about a month pclinuxos 2007 is comming out and it looks amazing. with the 3d cube desktop switching and all. ( i have used 3d desktop cube and it is great.)
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Torvalds was contemptuous of Microsoft's claims and has asked Redmond to name the patent infringements so that their veracity can be challenged and workarounds found.
"Naming them would either make it clear that Linux is not infringing at all (which is quite possible, especially if the patents are bad), or would make it possible to avoid infringing by coding around whatever silly thing they claim,"
"So the whole 'We have a list and we're not telling you' should tell you something. Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'?"
whole story here:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...-microsoft-put