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."

Comments

Can you download ISOs yet?

[caluml]

If you can't download an ISO, that instantly rules out a large chunk of the potential users. And I don't mean some run from CD wierdness - if I want that I'll use Knoppix.

Re:I'M WANKIN', I'M WANKIN', I'M COLD COLD WANKIN'

[Anonymous Coward]

I love you, SLT. If I was a woman or gay I would marry you and let you father my children. Your posts are absolute classics.

Want list

[brrrrrrt]

Want list before I'll install SuSE:

Kernel 2.6
VirtualDub, and not a demo version :)
NTFS write access
Flash MX
Something like Visual Basic for applications added onto Open Office (I heard the Qt people had something in the works?)
Working DivX player
Doom :)
Gimp 2, when it's out of beta
Perl 6, when it's there
PHP 5, when it's out of beta
PostgreSQL 7.4, when it's out of beta

So I suppose it'll be a year or two..

But it's good to see they're making progress. Even when it's sometimes in rather obsolete areas (e.g. winmodems :)
DVD recording on the other hand is a big plus!
Still a much better distribution than Red Hat with the ubiquitous Red Hat branding and bending things their way..

To bad really

[DarkOx]

Its so sad they took a wonderful distribution like Slackware and made it windows.

Re:Oh Suse Q

[Angram]

What's sad is that 95% of the people on /. have no idea what you're talking about.

wrong, you can download in iso

[justins]

It tends to come out after the box, however. And it doesn't include the entire distro. It's mostly just a bootstrap to get the installation going, the rest is downloaded over the net.

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?

Anyone who has used SuSE won't switch to a toy like Mandrake.