SuSE 8.2 Announced

Venotar writes "It looks like SuSE's once more setting the bar pretty high. According to their recent announcement, SuSE 8.2's release date is set for April 12th. Amongst other nifty features, KDE 3.1 apparently includes tabbed browsing, the ability to sync with Exchange servers, a new administration tool called "Desktop sharing" that allows remote control of other desktops, and several interesting new crypto/security features. Gnome 2.2 is also included, as well as a profile manager for mobile users, and gcc 3.3. Have a lot of fun!"

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Re:SuSE...

[arcade]

You left Mandrake off of this list because of what?

Not that I want to start a distro war, but my personal experience with Mandrake is that it has decayed since mdk8.1 . The 8.2 release was b0rken in so many ways that it wasn't even funny (for me). When I tried participating in betatesting of 9.0 (I think), i reported lots of bugs. None of which even got a single reply. None of which was fixed. (hangups, not able to mount fat12/16 properly, and others (At least I couldn't get them to work :)).

I've never had such problems with SuSE, which seems well tested when released. Personally I used mdk on all desktops from 7.0 to 8.1, used 8.2 on a couple of machines, both which broke so horribly that I've never been able to trust the distro since. I've tried 9.0, but wasn't overly impressed. SuSE on the other hand has worked flawlessly, and is my new favorite.

RedHat is, imho, only good for some server tasks where it is/was the only certified distro. But that is just my opinion.