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Suse 9.1 Reviews?

Posted by Cliff on from the sharing-your-opinions dept.

Bruha asks: "There have been several reviews of SuSE 9.1 lately in the online press. However I'd like to hear what the buying public has to say about Novell's first release of SuSE since buying the company. I'm currently typing this article from SuSE 9.1 x86_64 and I have to say past a few quirks I'm really starting to love this distro and admire how polished it has become since 8.2 my last SuSE purchase. What are other's opinions of the software after trying it out and what problems and new things have you discovered? And if you're sticking with it after a move from another distro why did you decide to stick?"

4 of 406 comments (clear)

  1. i um yeah by abscondment · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I still have bad associations with the name Novell and token-ring ethernet adapters.

    *shudder*

  2. Re:More polished? by AvitarX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The only SUSE I baught was 6.0 (I think).

    I was totally new and everytime I added hardware I had to re-install redhat 5.2 to get it setup (auto detect was great, but could not figuire out how to install it after the fact). I would run into the same problem with the no PnP ISA hardware if I did not know my jumper settings.

    With the YaST I would re-run the install program without re-installing.

    I stopped using it and switched to Debiasn when Debian 2. something came out. This was because SUSE upped their price for the 6 disk set to 90 doillors. 6.0 had no home/pro devision so it was much cheaper.

    Now I use Mandrake for 60 dollors a year, which still feels a little high, but it is real convienient to have mirrors and ISOs easy to find.

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  3. Offtopic? WTF!?! by geomon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    From the topic:

    "And if you're sticking with it after a move from another distro why did you decide to stick?"

    How does this poster's comments fall into the category of "Offtopic" when the topic asks for the information?

    Moderators on drugs, that's all it could be.

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  4. Going to take the plunge... by bckrispi · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I've been using Red Hat for some years now. The company I work for (*Very* MS centric) has a growing partnership with Novell. To avoid being put on a .Net project :) , I'm ramping up on Novell's offerings. So, naturally, a part of that will be learning SuSe. What kind of "gotcha's" can I expect coming from a Gnome/Red Hat background??

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