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S.u.S.E. 6.1 Ships Today
Drizzeth writes "Today S.u.S.E. Linux 6.1 will be released, this is what's new:
Kernel 2.2.5, XFree86TM 3.3.3.1, Support for all 3Dfx cards:
Voodoo I + II (accelerated)
Voodoo Rush (accelerated)
Voodoo Banshee / Voodoo III (beta),
KDE 1.1 with koffice, GNOME 1.0, Ghostscript 5.10, ijb (non-cacheing HTTP proxy server that filters contents as described in the configuration files), freeamp (MP3-Player), netbeans (Cross-plattform Java IDE, Demo)
And lots of updates."
Well, I noticed that announcement a while back that Chumbo.com would open up a Linux store, so I finally checked it out. The great news? SuSe 6.1 lists for about $24 for the official version: 450 page manual, 5 CDs. Can't get a better value than that! The bad news? They have it listed as shipping on (I think) the 19th! Their extremely nice customer support people said they'd look into it, but I still don't know if I feel like waiting that long.
What docs are you looking for? I just switched to SuSE 6.0 a couple months ago and found all the available documentation in English as well as German and other languages.
I just tried to install SuSE 6.0 on my box
here and gave up after finding that much of
the relevant documentation was only in German.
Also, they haven't yet responded to three tech
support emails I sent two weeks ago, and I hate
their monolithic YAST tool. And why did they
have to deviate from the standard way of installing PPP, making it difficult to run diald
AND have manual control of PPP in the same setup?
I gave up in disgust and have ordered RedHat 6.0.
In SuSE's favor I have to say that the ability to
manually load kernel modules in the setup was very
useful, and I found the GUI to be uncommonly well
organized.
'Beta Voodoo III support' ?? Does this mean I can play q3test with a voodoo III? :)
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Your honor is perfectly understandishable.
Looking at their ftp site (ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/), there is an ISO of apparently a 6.0 evaluation. I'm not sure what the evaluation bit means, but maybe they'll replace it with 6.1 soon...
I checked freshmeat.net and couldn't find it...
I check freshmeat.net and couldn't find it...
TedC
No SuSE user has to use YaST, just like 'you don't have to use linuxconf & co. in RedHat.
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Michael Hasenstein
http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/~mha/
> find it amusing that S.u.S.E. always seems to
> come out with a new version very shortly after
> Red Hat comes out with another version...
> and always with a slightly bigger version
> number...
Maybe this stems from the fact, that SuSE (the dots are gone) was already shipping distributions, when Red Hat didn't even exist? SuSE started business in 1992...
Bye, LenZ
There actually were quite a few changes with the 6.0 release.
Redhat 6.0
glibc 2.1
gnome 1.0
kde 1.1
The unstable 5.9 that your friend was playing around with was actually the 6.0 beta. Which explains the short availability, and the bugginess.
Ive used most every distro out there and SuSE has been my choice ever since Ive installed 6.0 /etc/rc.config or one of the desired scripts under /etc/rc.d, re-run YAST to make the changes take effect and your out of there.
YAST is a pretty tool but you DONT have to stick with it! You CAN play around and modify the conf scripts by hand, YAST just backs up its own version of those scripts but is happy to accept yours as well.
Whats better is you just edit
Now that is EASY face it.
After all SuSE is more of a precision work than RedHat could ever be.
Well but still its choices that makes Linux stronger. This shouldnt flaming around but the kick to keep all the distros improving.
MaymunCuk
-Will work for bandwidth
My understanding was that while the Banshee and V3 (same 2D hardware as Banshee) had more-or-less working Xservers, there was no Glide support for the boards.
Has this changed? Is there (even almost-working) support for V3 in Linux?
ijb is the Internet junkbuster see:
http://www.junkbuster.com/ for more details
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3Dfx card support for GLIDE and other 3D is only available for Voodoo 1, 2, and Rush, however is not available for Banshee, and Voodoo 3 yet.
Those two are only available as X servers and that is it. Be warned.
-Alan
-- Man was created on the seventh day when god was tired. --
I have yet to see a "release" X server that properly supports the ATI Rage Pro LT (the regular Rage Pro isn't a problem). Until then, I'm stuck with good old NT as my only OS on my Dell I7K (I already blew away the boot sector virus known as Windows 98). There's a hacked X available, but it breaks on the current Dell BIOS. Bummer.
Other than that, I used SuSE 6.0 for a while at home, and it's pretty nice. Right now I'm playing with COL 2.2, though.
-- Josh Turiel
"2. Do not eat iPod Shuffle."
At least SUSE didn't move all of the standard GNU include files to "gnu/*" as opposed to the standard / of the /usr/include directory tree, breaking all of my programs when the computer I have access to decided to upgrade to RedHat. What a bonehead thing that was, I spent about 3 days before I thought "Maybe the files really aren't there" and ran a 'find' on them....
This space for rent. Call 1-800-STEAK4U
The *.0 also indicates that this is a relatively unstable release ( mostly due to the new library version + desktop ) , so a lot of stability-conscious users ( such as sys-admins ) will probably stick to 5.2 until 6.1 is out.
-- Donovan
I agree that sticking to curses and staying clear of X is a good idea. ( try using a GUI over a dialup line some time ... )
Meanwhile, Redhat also have linuxconf which does a lot of what YaST does. I can't say I've explored RH's GUI stuff though. What I like about Redhat is that you can just ignore the config tools and everything works nicely.
I find it amusing that S.u.S.E. always seems to come out with a new version very shortly after Red Hat comes out with another version... and always with a slightly bigger version number...
oh well, I can't say anything bad about S.u.S.E. because I still have to use a boot disk of theirs to boot my system anytime something goes wrong. No other distribution seems to have figured out my scsi controller (which seems odd, since they (initio) have had a linux driver (with source) on their web page for this card for a year or more)
Also, their boot disk has also been kind enough to allow me to run the installers of other distros... like slackware and debian, my distros of choice.
so i guess my point is S.u.S.E. seems to have better hardware support than others... maybe if i have a spare puter lying around someday i'll give S.u.S.E. more of a try. (i don't think using their boot disk to boot another distros installer counts as using their distro... =)
The official mirrors (ie ftp.suse.com, etc) have an ISO CD Image. This includes nearly all of the installation on a single disk image. It looks as though the ISO is similar to RedHat's GPL distro.
This probably isn't excatly what you are looking for but it might help. =]
I bought mine at Fust in Zurich last Thursday for CHF 69. Not $25, but not too bad.
Mike
I'm probably going to take some heat for this, but have there been 6 _major_ changes since it's release? The switch from lubc5 -> glibc2 is one, and maybe the kerel jump, but 6? Makes me wonder if Suse and RH aren't just trying to sound more advanced.
Anyway I used Suse once. I couldn't stand YaST.
You have to use it to do pretty much everything and I really don't like the interface. To each his own, I suppose.
Not a flame... but I think SuSE is the best. The following is all IMHO:
I was a RedHat guy, but I just got so fed up. Redhat has gotten way to corporate and they don't seem to care if their software sucks, as long as people use it anyway (sound familiar?). SuSE puts a lot of care into their dist, and they include a lot of extra packages that RedHat never would bother with. The RedHat 5.2 install disk had a bug that would wipe out your entire extended partition!!! Even if you didn't install to that drive! That's crazy, and from what I've seen, SuSE takes more time to do it right and would never let this happen.
...and have you ever tried to actually download anything from RedHat? I find it amazing that noone seems to mind that they have what must be the most unreliable and slow ftp server around. This is AFAICT to get you to pay for a CD. SuSE's sites are fast (though I am losing faith right now... where is 6.1 on their servers???).
SuSE is not perfect of course, no distribution is, but I'd say for people who want an easy to manage system and up-to-date packages pre-tested for your sustem, go SuSE. I first tried it back with 5.x and thought it was the absolute best, except that it wasn't glibc. This shortcoming was corrected in 6.0 and as soon as I had the chance, I SuSE'ed both of my machines and have never been happier.
So you wait a few more weeks or months with the other distributions. So what. Having a stable release with an easy upgrade path is much more important than being first.
If someone does both, kudos to them.
I found bugs in SUSE 6.0 and sent them in and got no help, becuase I was not a registered user, you'd think they would want ot fix there bugs, but no.. so I went to RH5.2 and when I found bugs in there stuff I reported it thru there bugzilla.. they emailed me and helped me.. EVEN THOUGH I AM NOT REGISTERED USER.. I do not care about how anyone bad mouths Redhat, they are doing more for Linux than any other distro. Yes they have there bugs, as do all distros, but so far the still seem to believe in the OPEN SOURCE / "LINUX" way... if debian was easier to install I'd probably go with it over Redhat... SUSE sells demo cds also which is bad (IMHO) they tell companies like Linuxmall and Linuxcentral, what to put on there ftp cdroms, DON'T be fooled by an SUSE 1.89 cdrom.. it is probably only half the files on the ftp site.. I used to use then, and they are just out for money, it seems what have they done for Linux lately?
Only 'flamers' flame!
I'll probably get flamed for this...
well I ask you what distribution has done as much as Redhat has for the Linux communbity other than debian? Certainly not SUSE?
redhat brought us Gnome. They rejected KDE until the QT liscense was acceptable.
what has suse done? brought us a few drivers maybe .. Yast is you like yast (I do but, yast is no reason to buy a distro)
yes there are some plusses in SUSE, but IMHO they are not a GNU/LINUX kind of people... debian, slackware, and Redhat are thou.... TL is more GNU than SUSE....
I tried there SUSE 6.0 from linuxmall.. it only had half of what was in there ftp site, and that was because SUSE TOLD linux mall what to put on the cdrom.. as they told everyone else.. like cheepbytes, and linuxcentral..
sorry but every 4 months each of these companies comes out with a new distro, that upgrades some files, has more packages, and stuff, and fixes old bugs.. that to me is great.. I always have the most up to date software.. if I can afford to spend $30 to $50 dollars on a distro.. that comes to $90 to $150 a year.. thats why I want the cheep cdroms .... I don't have the time to download 1.2 Gigs of files form an ftp site, nor do I want my computer to be connected on line all that time, if I did I'd set up a server, not a workstation..
since SUSE 6.0 ftp cdroms were 'evaluation' and inclomplete, I do not feel that they support the OS community very well.. they have copyrighted Yast, how OS is that? people who could improve / add to Yast are provented... Redhat uses Linux conf which works on almost any distro including SuSE and can be turned off (so can Yast)..
use SUSE if you want.. but I will be using Redhat.. till a better distro comes along... or when debian goes rpm, and has an easier install (LOL)
Only 'flamers' flame!
If you want more stable versions, you'd have to look for update packages or get the entire newer package.
I haven't quite figured out why SuSE does this. When they release the international version, everything is pretty much new and current.
But as soon as they ship the US version, it's all dated. 2.2.5 is shipping w/ 6.1 and we're up to 2.2.7. Granted, 2.2.7 was just release a couple days ago, so maybe that's not the best example, but you get the point.
I don't know why it takes them so long to ship the US version. Maybe it's not completely translated when the international version ships. I guess it would be a good thing to inquire about.
Maybe I'll go do that now.
-Jae
My bad, I was grouping the German version in w/ the French, Dutch, etc releases.
-Jae
Yeah, but at least their new versions don't require a ton of errata updates.
I find it very convinient (sp) for them to release new versions every 6 months. It's hard to d/l new packages and sources over a 56k modem, and there is a lot of easy w/ just having to update new packages.
Unfortunately for me, it's not quite that easy b/c I have to recompile all programs that use shadow password to make them compatabile w/ the kerberos system that I use (it's university specific) - but it doesn't take me that long to do.
I'd rather deal w/ that then trying to d/l the errata updates.
-Jae
They ship too many new versions!
I stick with the best REDHAT 6.0 Extra
The kernel needs a Gtk/Gnome-based post-install device configuration tools "a la" make xconfig. (Better sig coming soon
I'd have to guess that they are using the xxedgexx banshee server. Which means, sorry, no q3test. You can run it, you can get a framerate of about 1 frame per 5 seconds, if the wind is behind you, you can quit (slowly).
The Banshee X-server (which also supports V3) has some 2D acceleration now, but no 3D yet. Still, now that the 2D work is more or less done according to the page, maybe 3D is on it's way.
I'm about a month into my linux experience and the majority of that time I've spent installing and playing around with all the distributions I can get...cheap. (I was only one version behind ie: rh 5.1, etc)
From my experience SuSe was easier to install than red hat (and red hat isn't even slightly difficult to install). Hell, I thought Slackware was straight forward.
But the one thing I really liked about SuSe was YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) it kicks ass. It's (if someone reading doesn't already know) just a setup thingy that centralizes all the things you (read *I*) took ages to figure out where they were and what they did and how to change them in other distributions. And it's a console app, none of this X-rubbish (not that I don't like X, it's just too slow on my DX33).
Moderaters, moderate away.
--- "If a man speaks in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?"
I used to use SuSE regularly and I still use it on a server but I have 6.0 sitting on the hard drive taking up 2.5 gigs and no way of putting it on CD because I can't find how to split it up anywhere. Does anybody know how to do this w/ 6.0? It's really annoying. I've bought two boxed sets from SuSE and I think that is enough for now...
-Aaron
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I'd like to try it, but $50 is too much for a trial. plus noone i know has it. does anyone know if there are things i can download/install without the dough?
I was thinking of how to intentionally fail my drug test... It would make a good memoir story someday.
X3.3.3.1 supports it. I got a bunch of gateways with ATI's of all sorts (RAGE, RAGE II, RAGE IIc, RAGE Pro, RAGE Pro LT) and boy did I have a fun time digging up the right driver.
But they all worked in 16bit, and no larger than 1024x768 (some larger but it wasn't really worth it). I also had to fool X to recognize the chipset as something it knows it supports.
Although that worked, I must warn you that moving windows screwed up the whole fscking screen or just some horizontal lines, or just the border regions of the windows, but once the screen was stationary again, it all worked fine. Also I stopped having that problem after Xfree I did a clean reinstall of X3.3.3.1 instead of substituting XF86_Mach64 in the X3.3.3 distribution.
Don't know about dell's, never tried a machine with a different bios, but I think it could be done. The good thing about linux, is that if it is open source, then it will probably work on more things than you expect. A driver will support all cards with the chipset. In windows, you need a driver for a particular card.
I was thinking of how to intentionally fail my drug test... It would make a good memoir story someday.
I don't get it. I have waited forever for this release. SuSE is by far my favorite distro. Today was to be the big day and yet, I can't find it on their FTP server. I run linux on my Trek2 laptop. None of the newest distro's (except Debian, which I loathe) support the JDK from blackdown. I hope SuSE 6.1 will. Has anyone here gotten the JDK to work on Redhat 6.0 or Caldera 2.2?
Ben
Translation - SuSE's definition of Beta - If you try doing anything with this for an extended period of time, it will dump a huge core somewhere on your drive, have fun.
You'll probably be able to play, but I'm not even sure that Q3Test has VIII support.
-Zen I'm gonna make the _world_ my bitch.
I have been using 6.0 SuSe since it was released. Looking forward to this new version. But just what does Voodoo3 Beta support mean? Is it Derek's 2D only XServer? Or is it actually supporting 3D Accleration? Hmmmm...
...? It's been available in the UK for Order for a week or two... don't forget, all that stuff's gota be tested &c as well. 2.2.5 is still a pretty good kernel, and it's not _that_ hard to update.
(Half the fun, some would say!)
SuSE ships with Gnome 1 and KDE 1.1. Does that mean that its not install them if you want the more stable versions i.e. Gnome 1.1 and KDE 1.1.1?
Patrick
"Captain, I cannot believe my ears!" - Spock