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SuSE 7.0 Available For Download
solusthewizard writes: "SuSE, probably Europe's top Linux distro, is available for download as a 'live evaluation' iso image for version 7.0. Not quite sure what that means as opposed to the shrinkwrapped version as I haven't finished downloading it yet! Check out here for the iso (or better still, look for a local mirror). Can't be any worse than Red Hat 7.0, my laptop is still recovering." Read about the things that make 7.0 beam with pride here, if you'd like. I will make a sizeable contribution to The Human Fund in the name of everyone who establishes or points to a mirror :)
hmmm
/etc/rc.config
change the first line to ENABLE_SUSECONFIG=no
vi
now you can be sure YaST wont over-write any changes you make... this took about one half second to figure out, maybe if you had spent as much time fixing SuSE boxes and you say you have, you would already know this. . .
Their product is named SuSe Linux 7.0. They don't mean "Linux 7.0", they mean "SuSe Linux 7.0". It says that everywhere else in the article but that one spot.
When I first got linux, I used Redhat since they were local to our area, and felt a certain loyalty bond. Well, perhaps I may go back one day - I won't rule it out.
After spending countless man-hours trying to figure out why I couldn't get XFree86 to install on my laptop (this was early 1998 - I forgot which version or why) I gave up and went back to windows. Later, I thought I'd give SuSE a try. The install went considerably more smoothly, and I got X up at the desired resolution. Now mind you, RH might have had a better install by early 1999 as well, but I wanted to try something new.
SuSE has been a dream for me since then, although I have had to tell it to not overwrite my hand-altered config files. With a modem hookup, it is far easier to buy a SuSE distro and have all my software updated at once than to download..download...download. Although I favor a do-it yourself approach, it was nice to at least have a GUI right off the bat - I'd explore later.
My main complaint with SuSE was that Yast2 will not run on my machine, even though it has 48M of memory, and I suspect if this trend continues it will become progressively harder to make full use of new features until I upgrade.
I realize that a more sophisticated reader can find fault with many of the things I have said here today, but that is my experience and opinion. I like SuSE - it is manageable and IMO fun to use. I plan to buy 7.0.
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When last I used suse (5.x or so), it seemed strongly kde based. That is, like corel, all the admin stuff reminded me of WinDOS. Is this still true? Can someone point me to some screenshots of a kde environment using themes? Or is Suse doing something completely different from this? What's the skinny on the admin tools? The ones with Corel drove me nuts; they seemed very rigid.
I see in the press announcement it supports OpenGL accelerated boards. What does this mean? The word "Supports" has a variety of meanings under Linux; from:
"The underlying *support* is there, so it might work in 2-3 years"
...to...
"Download 50 Meg of code from three sites, do two cvs updates, apply several dozen patches, rebuild everything three times, go to the zoo and feed the penguins, and it might be working when you get back"
...to...
"It just works when you boot"
So, of the common cards supporting 3d Acceleration, what "percentage" are they supported, with "100%" being "It just works when you boot"?
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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I got 7.0 within 2 days of the release here in Austria (end of August), and installed it on my desktop SMP machine as my workplace OS, and have been using it almost daily since. As potential stumbling blocks for Linux my box has got a new Geforce 2 (purchased at the time of the 7.0 install - before it was SuSE 6.3 and a MGA Millenium), and a USB CompactFlash reader. To be adventurous, I also opted to use the KDE 2 beta as my main and only desktop - the new KMail being the most compelling reason to leave KDE 1 behind.
And everything went just fine and continues to work "right out of the box" (of course only after the compulsory day or wrestling with it until everything is right; but that is apparently common to all new distros and releases anyway).
The Geforce 2 performs quite well; the only problems there are with the beta binary-only NVidia driver, which guns the machine down about once per week (but that's what one has ReiserFS for anyway, right? Besides, this is hardly the fault of SuSE).
The only problem with the CompactFlash was that - out of habit - I tried to build my own kernel with appropriate USB support before it dawned on me that the stock 7.0 kernel already had all the support I needed compiled in (2 hours down the drain).
KDE 2 is, well, beta, but that again is hardly the fault of SuSE, who explicitly tell you that it's not quite there yet. I'd only wish that they'd post updated RPMs for new betas on their website from time to time (with the same disclaimer).
These are my personal experiences - maybe I was just lucky, but IMO 7.0 is quite a nice distro and worth the upgrade from previous SuSE offerings. But of course YMMV.
The SuSe Live Eval lets you run a Linux system off of a CD so you can check it out without doing a full install. Pretty cool.
And as usual, I'm sure you can download the SuSe install disc as well.