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Novell Announces SUSE Linux 9.1

Posted by michael on from the debian-still-rules dept.

ravydavygravy writes "Novell today released details of the next incarnation of its linux products, Suse 9.1, based on the 2.6 kernel. It will come in both 32 and 64-bit versions, and includes a LiveCD version, to help people convince their Windows-loving friends to make the switch. It'll ship with Gnome 2.4.2 and KDE 3.2.1, as well as demo versions of the text processing application Textmaker and the spreadsheet application Planmaker (from Softmaker - but do we really need another office suite?). Samba 3 will also feature in the default setup."

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  1. Released today, not available til May... by bc90021 · · Score: 5, Informative

    "SUSE LINUX 9.1 will be available at http://store.suse.com and from bookstores and software suppliers on May 6. The recommended retail price of SUSE LINUX 9.1 Personal (two CDs, installation guide, 30 days of installation support) is $29.95. SUSE LINUX 9.1 Professional (five CDs, two double-sided DVDs, user guide and administration guide, 90 days of installation support) is $89.95. The update edition of SUSE LINUX 9.1 Professional is $59.95."

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  2. SuSE Community News by riggwelter · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can follow news leading up to the release, as well as blogs of members of the SuSE community as 9.1 approaches at Planet SuSE

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  3. I love SuSE by stateofmind · · Score: 5, Informative

    The other day I installed SuSE on my machine I'm building for my four year old. I bought the professional version of it for $80 at Best Buy, and was blown away. It was the easiet install of any OS period.

    The two manuals are beautiful. It comes with six cd's and a DVD with everything the six dics have. Talk about going out of your way for the customer.

    Josh

  4. Yay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm so glad Linux has gotten to the point where we can say "Do we really need another office suite?" :-)

  5. Re:And the CDs... by Roofus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dude, the personal version is going to be priced at $29.95 (at least according to an earlier post). That's a more than reasonable price for a fully featured OS suite. Just buy it from CompUSA or order it online.

  6. Re:Friendly NTFS partitioning? by weekendgeek · · Score: 5, Informative

    SuSE 9.0 has a really nice NTFS resize utility during install. Works quite well.

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  7. Re:Mono by AirLace · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe you posted the wrong link?

    'We don't expect to make Ximian the default user interface, and for the medium term KDE will remain the default GUI on SuSE Linux'."

    What you have to remember is that Novell has traditionally been a server-oriented business. Novell is interested in Mono primarily as a server offering -- the Ximian desktop connection is purely incidental. It would make perfect sense for them to bundle Mono to provide ASP.NET support in Apache 2, even if they've decided not ship a single Ximian Gnome library.

  8. More is better by X-Nc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    SoftMaker's products are quite exelent and TextMaker was worth buying, for me. There are a number of times when OO just doesn't render a document right while TM does. Ideaily I like to have at least OO, TM & Abiword installed on any desktop I use. I used to include Applix (the best office suite there was) in this but since the company killed it it's not worth running anymore.

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  9. Re:And the CDs... by akedia · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't remember where I found this script, I think it posted on the SuSE mailing list a few years ago. Anyway, it's a bash program that allows you to create your own SuSE DVD iso from an FTP.

    I could never get it to work properly, and I'm not the original author, but I'll post it here anyway.

    SuSE deserves our money for the work they do, so please only use this for testing purposes, and plan on paying for the box set, as I did.

    (I had to encode it base64 to get past the lameness filter. Released under GPL, YMMV, don't yell at me if it breaks your box, etc.)


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  10. Re:That is part of the joys of SuSE... by gmuslera · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you have problem with that, better don't try to install debian where the package list should be several times bigger, and that just using the official sources.

    In the other hand, SuSE have some default selections or aggroupations of packages, where instead of selecting one by one you get in one category a lot of related programs (i.e. you can select KDE or gnome desktop, or development packages or things like that) selected in group but where you can deselect things from there. That helps dealing with such amount of programs.

    Another strategy you can use to install distributions with that order of available programs is install a "default" system (at least for the ones that provides you with that option) and install more programs when you need something you don't installed at the first time.

  11. But the Real Joy with SuSE... by grahamkg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...is the ability to save a list of the selected packages in a file and use that to configure other machines almost instantly (the user.sel file saved through YaST). It's very powerful.

    SuSE is what RedHat could have been and what Mandrake should aspire to be.

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    1. Re:But the Real Joy with SuSE... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Uhm, Red Hat has that. When you next do a RH (or Fedora) install, look for the file /root/anaconda-ks.cfg -- it contains installation settings and package selections, making it easy to deploy identical OS setups on zillions of boxes.

  12. My own experience with SuSE.. by iantri · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Disclaimer: This is only my experiencew with SuSE. Yours may differ.

    I bought SuSE 9.0 and tried it a few months ago, and must say I didn't particularly care for it.

    While they are definately producing one of the most polished distro's available, it deviates from most linux distributions somewhat dramatically; I still don't know how exactly the init system works. (It's not exactly SysV, it's not exactly BSD).

    When I used it I had a problem in which it repeatedly would launch the X configurator if I had dual-head enabled. I don't know if that was just me or not.

    Everything is tightly integrated in SuSE -- the KDE desktop is pretty amazing, but GNOME support is almost non-existant. Unfortunately, I found the KDE desktop to be pretty slow on my machine (P3 800mhz machine. Slackware with KDE3.1 runs great on it).

    I also found that you HAD to do things SuSE's way -- if there wasn't a button for it in YaST, the SuSE configurator (and generally, there was.. YaST is probably the most comprehensive config tool for Linux), or YaST didn't give you all the options you needed, you couldn't do it yourself because YaST would stomp all over your changes.

    SuSE is also the most proprietary of Linuxes, and there's not alot of support for it online (again, you can't just update say, package X from a source tarball because SuSE will throw a fit).

    It's probably not bad for novice and intermediate computer users; I'd reccomend that experienced users who want a pretty desktop with little hassle use Mandrake.