On Monday 21 June 2004 16:20, Graham Trott wrote:
The download is real, and it works. I have it on two computers now. For the first time, a distro that was able to configure my PCMCIA Prism WiFi card properly and without any more than simply clicking boxes. The difference between Personal and Professional is merely a marketing one; I now know you can get the whole lot by FTP from the mirror servers, by reconfiguring YAST to use them instead of or as well as the CD/DVD.
Doh, must remember to check for new messages before replying to the list.
At the risk of whipping up a storm, having previously installed Debian Sarge on the same computer, with the same 2.6 kernel and KDE3.2, the difference is that SuSE 9.1 is a complete system, not just a set of parts. Perhaps Debian is more stable, but not having had a SuSE crash for a while I find that not a compelling argument. I have a new respect for the effort SuSE (and Mandrake, Syd) put into configuration tools, which make the difference between needing to be an expert and just using a computer without any fuss. Not being one who cares much what's going on under the hood if it gets me from A to B, I prefer the complete distro approach. While having the utmost respect for Debian lovers and their superior expertise (there, I had to say that).
As a good polished general purpose workstation OS, yep I have to agree SuSE is pretty good. I've been pretty much full circuit around all the popular distros, my first Linux box was SuSE 5.2 (I think) and I am now sitting in front of a SuSE 9.0 box. Now and again I fire up vmware and try something different, but for this machine at least it's going to be SuSE for the forseeable future.