SUSE LINUX 9.1 Review

[mbottrell]

HEy, if you're looking for an alternative for Fedora, give Suse Linux a go. :)
It's a BIG distro, and normally contains heaps of software.

SUSE recently got bought out by Novell, so it's backed by a strong and well respected Computing Company.
Novell has been doing some really cool OpenSource stuff and have even released a plugin to allow Linux mail users to talk to an exchange server. :)

A review on the latest SUSE release can be found at DesktopOS.com (http://www.desktopos.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=17)
Enjoy! :)

Cheers,

Matt.

[mbottrell]

Okay, The FREE version of SuSE 9.1 has been released. :)

You can download it from here: http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/suse/

If you want to test it out... there is a LiveCD of 9.1 you can use. (Boot off the CD and run the OS that way!) If you like it ... you can then install the full thing! :)
You'll find the LIVE CD here: http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/suse/i386/live-cd-9.1/

The FREE version is almost identical to that of the Professional version (albeit missing a few commercial programs).

You can read up on what the Pro version (and hence the Free) version is like from here: http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/prof/index.html

Cheers,

Matt.

[rbirdman]

I'm just trying the Suse 9.0 live cd this weekend on my new dell laptop and it is very impressive. Hardware detection is a good as Fedora.

It takes a while to boot and programs take a while to load but it picked up an ip address from my router and I was on the net straight away.

YaST looks like a very comprehensive tool for managing your system. I like the fact that Mozilla is part of the setup and that it comes with java, flash, realplayer and the like straight out of the box. For some reason I've never taken to kde so I like see how gnome is on it.

I still have plenty of space of my pc harddrive so I think I'll install it and give it a go for awhile. The only drawback I can see with it is getting hold of the cd's or doing a network install. I've done some kickstart installation with RedHat so I'm comfortable with the idea of doing a network install. I was thinking of formatting the drive anyway and setting up Fedora as a server so it worth a go.