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Review of SuSE 8.1 Professional
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.
You mean BSD?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
SuSE has an ftp installation... so if you don't want to buy the CD, you have to download their installation manager and boot to that. then you can select the packages you want, etc. via ftp.
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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!
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!
Stupidity is mis-underestimated.
YaST2 and SaX2 can be better, but even as they are today blow most of Red Hat's preference panels away. On the other hand Red Hat's XFT font properties are no match to any other Linux distribution so far, while Red Hat has good integration for Qt and GTK+ toolkits, something that SuSE doesn't.
This is very important! People keep bitching about Anti-Aliased Font support, well why is RedHat the only including an advanced utility? Fonts are 99% of your visual aspect of your desktop, good looking fonts make a BIG difference. (side note, Mosfet Liquid engine/theme is a must..)
I'm a SuSE (sparc64), Mandrake (x86) user. Mostly because Mandrake had the better font support. I've switched over to RedHat 8.0 due to the XFT font support.
BTW, I shouldnt have to recompile the desktop to have decent font support. So dont keep saying "Compile yourself". If I wanted a source based, compile everything yourself distribution, I would use Gentoo. (Gentoo doesnt include all the custom applications for preferences.)
First she complains about the installer not making enough decisions, then she complains about SaX making decisions.
In reality, the installer DOES make all decisions. All it does (and that was obviously confusing Eugenia) is SHOW these decisions to you and allow you to change it. But it doesn't force you to do anything at all.
What's wrong with that? The below-average complete moron (which everybody seems to be targetting these days.) just presses "Install" and it installs without any need to configure anything. On a computer with one clean harddrive or partition, the install should work just fine with the default settings.
Hell, even Eugenia was able to install the damn thing, so it's dumbed down enough.
Also, unlike Eugenia sais, SuSE comes with CDs *AND* DVD, not "or".
That's not all. Here's a list of what else is missing:
I guess we'll have to wait for 8.2.
DNA is the ultimate spaghetti code.
- most of these packages are from third parties. It's not up to the distro people to fix them
- Sun won't lilke you modifying Star Office (so download openoffice and bitch about the stuff that was left out THERE because of patents, etc).
- "GTK+ applicaton to look more as the primary Qt platform" - WTF. Nobody home there - GTK - The Gimp Toolkit - Gnome vs. Qt - Trolltech
- "Better integration with Windows" - Why? If you want Windows, run Wndows. If you need to share files, use Samba.
Unfortunately, this has been the trend with too many reviewers - they look at the superficial stuff, and make up their minds based on whether the colors are pretty, and this passes as in-depth journalism.It was thinking (if you can call it that) like this that gave us the dot.bomb crash.
go ahead, mod this as flamebait, but I think the original article was a real POS, and that reviewers should be required to actually USE the product in a production environment for more than a few days before writing about it.