I've installed it on several desktops of varying speeds from a PII 350 to a P4 2.6. They are a mixture of file and web servers, a development machine, a desktop/gaming machine, and a laptop with a wireless G card. All are working great.
The changes from SuSE 9, which I'd been running for several months, aren't all that apparent on most of these machines, but with a faster machine the performance improvements are pretty obvious.
ndiswrapper is included and after a few lines of setup and 3 lines at startup I can get my wireless G card on my laptop up and running.
No GNOME 2.6 and no packages yet, which dissapointed me, but I'll live. GNOME 2.4 is still a step up from the 2.2 version on SuSE 9. I use the new KDE on my servers and it seems to get a nice speed boost from the new kernel. All in all a fine desktop experience.
I've tried serveral distros lately since abandoning Red Hat and after a few bad Fedora experiences and SuSE seems to strike the right balance of everything for me.
Even my wife is running SuSE now with no problems and she doesn't even know how to login to a computer. (Yes, I'm an IT professional and yes, it's shameful.)
I'm looking forward to a (hopefully) good Mono experience with SuSE. I figure since it's been thrown into the Novell bag with Ximian they should be supporting it a bit better than other distros. So far that's been true with the Red Carpet support for SuSE 9, and the 9.1 Red Carpet rpms waiting for something on their ftp. I've installed them and they run fine. I'm not sure why they aren't listed on the install page yet. All of the channels aren't set up yet but the mono and SuSE 9.1 channels are up and running.
So all in all I'm quite pleased. I'm glad I paid for the pro version they definately deserve my cash for this release.
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I've installed it on several desktops of varying speeds from a PII 350 to a P4 2.6. They are a mixture of file and web servers, a development machine, a desktop/gaming machine, and a laptop with a wireless G card. All are working great. The changes from SuSE 9, which I'd been running for several months, aren't all that apparent on most of these machines, but with a faster machine the performance improvements are pretty obvious.
ndiswrapper is included and after a few lines of setup and 3 lines at startup I can get my wireless G card on my laptop up and running.
No GNOME 2.6 and no packages yet, which dissapointed me, but I'll live. GNOME 2.4 is still a step up from the 2.2 version on SuSE 9. I use the new KDE on my servers and it seems to get a nice speed boost from the new kernel. All in all a fine desktop experience.
I've tried serveral distros lately since abandoning Red Hat and after a few bad Fedora experiences and SuSE seems to strike the right balance of everything for me. Even my wife is running SuSE now with no problems and she doesn't even know how to login to a computer. (Yes, I'm an IT professional and yes, it's shameful.)
I'm looking forward to a (hopefully) good Mono experience with SuSE. I figure since it's been thrown into the Novell bag with Ximian they should be supporting it a bit better than other distros. So far that's been true with the Red Carpet support for SuSE 9, and the 9.1 Red Carpet rpms waiting for something on their ftp. I've installed them and they run fine. I'm not sure why they aren't listed on the install page yet. All of the channels aren't set up yet but the mono and SuSE 9.1 channels are up and running.
So all in all I'm quite pleased. I'm glad I paid for the pro version they definately deserve my cash for this release.