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Summary: Switched from Red Hat
Review: We are getting much closer to the LINUX desktop - this is the best example I have seen yet.9.1 is actually my first experience with Suse, since I switched from Red Hat after the Fedora fiasco. But thus far I am very pleased.
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Summary: The New Suse...
Review: Well, Suse has come out with their next version. Most of the "new" features are things that you may not see per se. Suse has done a lot of tweaking under the hood so you have to read up on the distro to see the enhancements. Like the 2.6 kernel, or it's new hyperthreading technology. But enough babble...let's get to the heart of this thing. Suse has a proprietary installer as well as several other proprietary components which make it a near impossibility that the distro will ever offer a free download again. You can download and install by ftp but that is something most people with a dial-up don't want to do--or can't do. As another reviwer pointed out, if you have new hardware, get the live CD first and see if your hardware can run Suse. I installed version 9.1 on a machine that has a history of running Linux nearly perfectly. Every time I have installed Suse, there is some surprise that I have encountered. But I have managed to get it working and performing as a stable platform. For this, I give Suse 9.1 4 stars. But I hesitate to say "It's the greatest" because of the problems that I have had with the distro every time. There is always some bug or "something" that doesn't work right with my equipment--which leads to my next point. Every reviewer's rating is accurate based upon that individual's experience. And I can say with a great degree of certainty that those with poor reviews simply had a bad install or little hardware support--for the most part. (Goodness knows that there are a myriad of things that can happen during an install). And those with good reviews had a good experience. So keep this in mind when reading the reviews. Your mileage may vary. It's based on your knowledge, your hardware, and your determination to get the system up and running. And if you have no hardware support, no amount of persistence or knowledge will change it. So, overall, I rate this distro on par with the other versions but with the same "gotchas" that the other versions have had. And when Mandrake, Libranet and other distros run on the same machine just fine, it has to be the distro's fault. The best thing to do is test the distro for yourself and if it doesn't work, get another distro--preferably Mandrake as it is comparable to Suse and has excellent hardware support.
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Summary: The New Suse...
Review: Well, Suse has come out with their next version. Most of the "new" features are things that you may not see per se. Suse has done a lot of tweaking under the hood so you have to read up on the distro to see the enhancements. Like the 2.6 kernel, or it's new hyperthreading technology. But enough babble...let's get to the heart of this thing. Suse has a proprietary installer as well as several other proprietary components which make it a near impossibility that the distro will ever offer a free download again. You can download and install by ftp but that is something most people with a dial-up don't want to do--or can't do. As another reviwer pointed out, if you have new hardware, get the live CD first and see if your hardware can run Suse. I installed version 9.1 on a machine that has a history of running Linux nearly perfectly. Every time I have installed Suse, there is some surprise that I have encountered. But I have managed to get it working and performing as a stable platform. For this, I give Suse 9.1 4 stars. But I hesitate to say "It's the greatest" because of the problems that I have had with the distro every time. There is always some bug or "something" that doesn't work right with my equipment--which leads to my next point. Every reviewer's rating is accurate based upon that individual's experience. And I can say with a great degree of certainty that those with poor reviews simply had a bad install or little hardware support--for the most part. (Goodness knows that there are a myriad of things that can happen during an install). And those with good reviews had a good experience. So keep this in mind when reading the reviews. Your mileage may vary. It's based on your knowledge, your hardware, and your determination to get the system up and running. And if you have no hardware support, no amount of persistence or knowledge will change it. So, overall, I rate this distro on par with the other versions but with the same "gotchas" that the other versions have had. And when Mandrake, Libranet and other distros run on the same machine just fine, it has to be the distro's fault. The best thing to do is test the distro for yourself and if it doesn't work, get another distro--preferably Mandrake as it is comparable to Suse and has excellent hardware support.
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Summary: Do you like working on a new car?
Review: Where do I start, it is like buying a new car and rebuilding it after you get it home. Broken apps, no movie players, burn a CD I hope you got plenty of time. Suse got me this time but not again.
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Summary: ! ! ! SuSE fanatic ! ! !
Review: While back I was having lots of trouble with My win2k pro especally when I rebuilt My systems to 64 bit.
Red Hat handled it but I didnt like the rpm Linux to much and found Myself trying to go back to windows which had a problem supporting 64 bit so I started looking towards maybe trying out Debian untill a good friend/tech talked Me into giving SuSE 9.1 Pro a try.
While windows can support 64 bit in xp I knew I wouldnt run xp, thats a story in itself...
I was alittle skeptical at first but soon as I recieved My box set, and installed it I immediatly fell in love and wont even consider another OS... If amazon.com wasnt limiting I would give SuSE Pro more then 5 stars easily!
Once I installed, I was surprised to find I didnt miss one thing that windows offered, actually to My surprise was even better then what windows had to offer such as Vim and Kwrite over note pad and word pad for My programming and coding.
Im not sure if Red Hat comes with it now, but My SuSE 9.1 Pro came with not only Gaim, but Kopete which I like so much better then msn messanger including with msn plus added, Kopete just blows msn messenger/w plus away, userability, functionally, etc and seems to handle connect times much better too then msn messenger. Logs right in with no problems =)
Also came with many many other messangers to choose from which you can log in to msn, yahoo, aim, icq and jabber along with a big list of irc chat clients to choose from such as the new x-chat, Ksirc, KVirc 3, GnomeICU messenger for icq/aol, Konversation, Gabber etc... But I stick with Kopete and X-chat...
I also noticed the Netscape browser that came with My SuSE was so much better then the netscape for windows. It seems to handle plug ins so much better, actually accepts more HTML then windows internet explorer and so far not one crash. I didnt care much for the windows netscape but I love the Linux version even better then Mozilla FireFox...
Kind of like x-chat I suppose, I didnt like the x-chat for windows at all, mirc is to exploitable which was why I wanted to stay away from it but it was very customisable, but the new x-chat for Linux thats packed with SuSE is awsome in KDE enviroment, and also very hackable to customise the source to build your own tools or add others, much like the [/a] in mirc but much nicer and goes thru the config files instead and also its not exploitable ;P
I seen 9.2 is out but Im going to stick with My 9.1 for awhile, Im really enjoying this and enjoy learning new things as well with My SuSE in an extreamly comfortable, kewl enviroment.
I will say this though, well... I do miss somethings from windows that I dont get with SuSE Linux, such as those nifty neat-o blue screens and all that way kewl down time, corrupted and/or missing files, constant error messages that dont explain a thing, one app crashing but forces you to crash your entire system, and lets not forget everybodies family fun fill adventure packed favorite... 3 thousand reboots a day =) ... NOT ! ! !
Power ov the Green Geco Lizard!
Enjoy B-)
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