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Review of SuSE 8.1 Professional

Posted by timothy on from the supersized-bells-and-whistles dept.

Gentu writes "SuSE 8.1 is out and it seems to be the main competitor of Red Hat 8. OSNews has the review of its Professional version. The new SuSE 8.1 seems to be sleekier and more powerful than ever." Eugenia, as usual, isn't shy about saying what she doesn't like. There's a review on Linuxlookup.com as well.

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  1. Re:Competition by Kenja · · Score: 5, Funny
    "It's odd that RH, SuSe and Mandrake compete with each other more than their common enemy."

    You mean BSD?

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  2. why the wait? by tps12 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't understand why SuSE is only now coming out with Linux 8.1, and Red Hat only just came out with Linux 8.0. Meanwhile, Slackware came out with Linux 8.0 an entire year ago. Why do all the commercial companies find it so hard to keep up? I guess in some sense the open model really is better.

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    1. Re:why the wait? by gmhowell · · Score: 3, Funny

      nogoodmonkey, meet cluestick

      cluestick, meet nogoodmonkey

      WHAPPP!!!

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    2. Re:why the wait? by windex · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...

      It's time to switch to Mandrake they are at the Linux 9.0 One entire playing level beter than RedHat, Slackware and all other Debian (has only Linux 3.0) !!!! ...

      Well, ha... I'm running Windows 98, so I'm like 91 levels above Mandrake. ...

      SO, uh, WINDOWS USERS CANT COUNT EITHER? THINK OF THE CHILDREN, DON'T USE MICROSOFT!

  3. Dammit by Ruis · · Score: 3, Funny

    So I just got done installing Suse 8.0 and while doing the online update, I decided to see what's new on slashdot. Guess what the first article I see is.

  4. Not enough raw data dumping on me like feces by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    SuSE just doesn't have enough CDs. I want SuSE to install every utility for every OS I can, at least in theory, emulate. I also want all optional features enabled and support for every language and file format just in case. I'm talking something like a 20GB minimum install, and SuSE just isn't there yet. Maybe next release, though.

  5. Re:linux installs by Phouk · · Score: 5, Funny

    To be honest, many of the recent slashdot posts require the reader to think exactly like the writers did in order to understand the sentences properly. Otherwise, most of them require a bit of unnecessary reading and re-reading to get their meaning right.

    It's stable and intuitive without the use my way and like it that redhat tends towards or the I work great if I decide to work of mandrake.

    For example, why did it take me almost 3 tries to hack my way through the previous sentence? Complete punctuation and grammar are standard technologies now, you should be able to use them. Thanks!

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  6. Re:Just got my copy today by oever · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'm also a little disappointed that it shipped with 2.4.19 instead of 2.4.20.

    That's not all. Here's a list of what else is missing:
    • OpenOffice 1.2
    • Mozilla 2.0
    • GCC 3.4
    • GNU/MS Office


    I guess we'll have to wait for 8.2.
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  7. Re:Competition by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, it's the Judean Popular Front! (Or is it *People's* Front?...)