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."

Comments

Gave up on SuSE

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Gave up on SuSE

[Rocket Boy]

Strange. The 6.0 box I bought a few days ago had all the docs in english and many other languages, including the german. Of course, you have to make sure you specify the english packages in setup to be loaded or the german gets the default.

RB

Re:it's funny...

[GrenDel Fuego]

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.

3Dfx card support

[Drizzt]

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

YaST, the killer app?

[mountain]

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).

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