SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, a Closer Look

Tripperfish writes "Mad Penguin's Adam Doxtater has published an in-depth review of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, Novell's alleged 'Vista Killer.' From the article: 'SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 is a very capable, industrial strength desktop which is ready to take on basic desktop chores in the corporate environment, and for the price you simply cannot go wrong. ' The review comes complete with screenshots and Flash movies of the install, new GNOME interface, and Beagle in action."

Comments

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[future assassin]

This is just me but fancy ass desktops mean shit to me, I still love the pre XP look on windows. I dont need no fancy graphics What I need is for linux to be able to run aps like Photoshop natively. NO I dont want to buy CrossOver office or use GIMP. Linux companies need to get software makers and electronic manufacturers (for example camera makers) to mave their equipment plug and play.

You got to give everyday joe windows user a reason to switch with out having to be forced to use and learn new alternatives for hir/her favorite software. Shit start with the default browser and make its home page Hotmail. Make people comfortable first and then you got them. How about making Firefox look like Outlook express?

Re:Vista killer?

[jackspenn]

Let me guess you are someone who derives value from the outsider effect. It is when you use things because the majority doesn't, just to be different, to feel independent or so you can claim to be better. You fail to realize if you make your choices by picking the opposite of what others choose, you are no more free then those who choose whatever the herd does.

Truth is that if people were open minded they would see that you should pick an OS on what works for you. I have a Windows XP laptop, because there are a large number of applications and devices that only work on Windows and that I need. I do not use OpenOffice, because it is slow, not always compatible and the user interface is terrible. I am writing this post on a FC4 laptop using Firefox, because I like to hack and play with things and linux lets me get under the hood and I think it is better suited for python and ruby programming and I love being able to read through the source code and see how things work. That said, I think Windows Vista has a tremendous chance at crushing (but not killing) linux. I have installed MSH on my XP laptop and it is insane how superior an object oriented scripting engine is verses a text based engine that requires parsing and exception handling, with MSH on Windows you ask for an object and you always get it the same way every time. Not so on Linux. I have played around with SuSE in my VMware enviornment as well as Debian and others. They just do not do it for me. Finally, for Linux to a serious desktop option, your mom needs to be able to use it, write a word doc and e-mail her friends. That is not the case with Linux.