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Upcoming SuSE 9.0 Professional Reviewed
molarmass192 writes "Open magazine has the first review I've seen of the upcoming SuSE 9.0 (or should that be SUSE 9.0 now?) Professional distribution. To summarize, they are impressed with the upgrades to Yast (it's fully integrated into the KDE control panel), Samba integration, Winmodem support, network configuration management, and performance. It's not the most thorough review I've ever read, but it's an interesting look at what to expect for those who have preordered SuSE 9.0."
You can pay for it, just like everyone else does. Stop being a cheapskate.
Mad penguin review
german review (translation)
- Jj
The net install works pretty well. You don't need no stinkin' iso
no, you still can't but you can install it directly over the internet via their ftp server. it's not the same but should be good enough for most users.
I don't like CDs anyway because they just tend to get lost...
I like the DVDs though, because with those you don't have to change CDs anymore. btw how many disks is the current SUSE?
- And since most of us haven't contributed to the source code, we could at least support those who have.
:)
Excuse me, but this is real bullshit. You don't pay the programmers, you only pay for somebody who takes open source projects and makes a nice compilation of programs. Plus you get the media, some handbook and installation support.S.u.S.E. also includes a tool named hdparm.
I've just installed SuSE 9.0 on my laptop this evening. I wasn't sure if it would be worth upgrading from 8.2 as the changes didn't seem that major, but I like to support SuSE since they do such a good job, and I've bought every version since 7.2 so it seemed like a shame to stop now...
Anyway, I copied all my important data onto the server downstair, stuck the disk in a did a full install. (I've always done an upgrade before, but I thought it was about time to have a clean sheet again).
I was really impressed with the installation - went really smoothly, and detected nearly all my hardware straight off, with only the Wacom graphics tablet not detected. It was improved over previous versions in that it gave options for connecting to networks and authentication via LDAP and stuff like that. One of the last things it offered to do was connect to the internet to get the latest updates, which I allowed it to do. It also got the proper NVidia drivers and the MS TTF fonts.
I did the usual fiddling to get the display exactly how I like it, copied the data back from the server and I have a fully working system again.
Now I'm starting to notice the improvements. The first thing I noticed was the considerable improvement in boot speed. The next thing I noticed was how the fonts were all looking really nice without me having to change any settings. (Although I have now changed to Bitstream Vera because I prefer that).
Then I plugged my camera in, and a new icon appeared on the desktop for it automatically. (I tried to ages to get 8.2 to do that).
My samba connection to the server is working without me having to fiddle with any settings.
I'll admit it's early doors yet, but so far things are looking really good, and I'm very pleased I upgraded.
Ho hum for the life of a bear
Also, do they actually think that people buy it since they can't download an install iso instead of just using a differnet distro like drake?
Actually they *know* people buy it whether or not they'd offer a free ISO download. Also what's this obsession with ISO downloads? SuSE install images would span at least 7 ISO image files. They offer the entire FTP/SAMBA-based install set of files for free download, about 6GB worth, so the total download btye-count to get yourself a freeloader's install-base is about the same. All you need then is to set up an internal FTP or SAMBA server to host these files and then you can do all the install-over-your-LAN installations you please. Over a 100Mbps LAN it even goes much faster than a CDROM install does, plus you're not bothered to do all those pesky disk swaps as does a cd disk-based installation require.
I have a Dlink DWL-650 wireless card on my old Toshiba laptop, and Vector Linux (a slackware derivative) found and used it automatically when I installed it.
This is why I love APT for SuSE. A simple
sudo 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade'
and I have the current versions of everything -- just like using the ports tree in FreeBSD. Check it out, you might find it interesting. And it respects the RPM database, so you can still use YaST or install/remove RPMs manually if you want.
I've never understood why people care about the iso thing. You can do a ftp install off of two floppies, or burn the ftp/http/etc install cdrom and use that.
FTP Install Instructions
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Try a Netgear MA-311 (PCI) or MA-401 (PC Card) adapter. Both tend to be autodetected (as prism2 chipsets) by anything modern (Mandrake 9.1, gentoo, knoppix 3.3), and work fine, certainly more trouble-free than with windows.
Having said that, in my experience they work even better with the linux-wlan-ng code.
"'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'"
- JRR Tolkien.
Excuse me, but this is real bullshit. You don't pay the programmers, you only pay for somebody who takes open source projects and makes a nice compilation of programs. Plus you get the media, some handbook and installation support.
Suse happens to pay programmers that work on the Kernel, particularly the ISDN interface, the RAID drivers and many other areas. Suse also sponsors reiserfs, several KDE subprojects and a lot of other projects. That's you money at work.
Kristian