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SuSE 8.2 Announced

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the yast-and-sax dept.

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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  1. MMMMM Suse by batboy78 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I sure miss the day when you could download the ISO's for free. I think that is why Mandrake is so appealing.

  2. SuSE and Red Hat by Karma+Sucks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    SuSE and Red Hat are the last professional distributions left in my opinion. I'm not very impressed with Mandrake overall. They seem to be a bunch of amateurs.

    SuSE's offerings are just plain mouth-watering. Red Hat is a bit of a controversial choice with overboard desktop nullification but the core is very good. SuSE's desktop is AWESOME.

    When it comes to package managers, SuSE also has much better network updates and doesn't require a paid subscription like Red Hat. The paid subscription is major bummer indeed.

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  3. GCC 3.3 ? by Alex · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From the website,

    "SuSE Linux 8.2 also includes a pre-release of gcc 3.3"

    Interesting choice - apparently GCC 3.3 includes a lot of work SuSE have contributed. Will this be as controversal as Redhat's compiler choice of 2.96 a while back?

    Alex

  4. GCC by cos(0) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    GCC 3.3 is not released yet; are they hoping that it'll be out before their deadline, will they include an unstable 3.3, or is this a typo in the announcement?

  5. If i'm not mistaken... by Soko · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...the "Desktop Sharing" feature is part of KDE 3.1, so any one who upgrades to that version gets that particular functionality - not just those on SuSE 8.2.

    *Looks at the KDE 3.1 menu on his RedHat 8.0 machine*

    K-->System Tools-->More System Tools -->DesktopSharing

    Yup, I'm not mistaken. (APT4RPM and KDE For Redhat are great together, BTW.)

    SuSE is a great distro, but credit where credit is due, please.

    Soko

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    "Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
  6. SuSE... by ElGuapoGolf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I feel compelled to post this, because I'm sure in a few hours there will be tons of RedHat fanboys slagging SuSE and going on about how RedHat is the greatest.

    I use RedHat pretty extensively at work (Advanced Server and 8.0) and I am not at all impressed with it. I'm not sure what it is, but it doesn't feel as complete as SuSE. And RH folks, why did you cripple KDE so I can't shut the machine down from KDE? Even your sales reps were amazed when I showed them my SuSE box with it's shutdown screen. What was your reasoning for this?

    SuSE seems stable as all hell, and it's hardware detection is second to none. I'm suprised nobody else has something like suse's little hwscan program (or do they). I just pop in a USB device (like a cdrw or a floppy drive) and it's configured, and appears on my KDE desktop. It's automagical.

    SuSE plays mp3s out of the box.

    It seems like the playing field these days is being narrowed down to RedHat and SuSE. Here's hoping it doesn't get narrowed down any further.

  7. Re:5 cds or 2 dvds? by riggwelter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The second DVD contains the sources, the first mirrors the binary contents of the 5 CDs. It's controversial, but complies with the GPL (they are distributing the sources along with the binaries).

    The number of people without DVD drives is dwindling too...

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  8. Mandrake 9.1- a bomb by joestar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I tested the latest state of Cooker (which is the 9.1 pre-final), and it's incredibly good. They have:
    - a completely new and redesigned (and simplified) installation procedure, never saw something so efficient and fast
    - a completely redesigned desktop in GNOME & KDE (it's called MandrakeGalaxy and has *great* new icons...)
    - anti-aliased fonts everywhere, this provides a great comfort of use...

    There are also cool features such as NTFS partition resizing, WiFi support and others.

    And the best of all is that for 10 days they seem to be only focusing on intensive debuging and frankly it's hard to find any bug left in this distribution!

    My feeling is that MDK 9.1 is going to be a real bomb in the Linux world - it's so full featured, easy to use, powerful... I would call it "Ultimate"!

  9. Install via FTP by ElJosho · · Score: 3, Interesting


    I'm running SuSE 8.1 on three machines right now - my home system, my laptop, and my work PC. I am still learning Linux, but I have tried quite a few distros and the lack of ISO images for SuSE dosen't bother me. Why? Because the FTP install is bulletproof! All I've ever needed to install SuSE on anything was three floppies and the IP of a local mirror.

    Sure, it takes hours, but just check off the packages you want, light fuse and get away! Set it before you go to bed, it's done in the morning (at least on cable/T1) - no swapping discs or anything like that. If you're looking to install onto multiple PCs, just mirror the distro locally. It's no bigger than a few ISOs would be. SuSE is also the ONLY distro I've gotten to install via FTP - most others made it so difficult that I had to download the ISOs.

    Just my experience, your milage may vary.