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SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 comingSUSE Linux Professional 9.3 comingPosted Mar 10, 2005 19:31 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)In reply to: SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming by maceto Parent article: SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming
That's a new one on me. I moved from fedora to suse specifically because I found that everything works for me, out of the box on suse, while fedora takes a lot of tweaking and home-made scripts to get things working right.
Suse has a fairly decent beta test community, composed mainly of more technical users, and the betas get a good shaking out before the final version is released.
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SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming Posted Mar 11, 2005 0:07 UTC (Fri) by lesceil (guest, #28385) [Link] Entirely not my experience.
I installed SUSE Pro 9.1 before on my server, and was surprised that something as simple as burning an audio CD would completely lock up my machine. Good betatester program? WTF - and also remember that people using XFS filesystems lost data because it apparently had also not been tested.
Now when SUSE 9.2 came out I was thinking 'this time they must have gotten it right'. I could not have been more wrong. First messup: I changed the initial package installation to include some developer packages like the usermode kernel package. Admittedly that might be a little off-mainstream but still it should not have removed the original kernel from the grub config in /boot and replaced it with a usermode kernel that is entirely useless for initial booting. It took me a while of playing around with the rescue cd to correct that and get access to my new installation.
My old harddisk I had changed to hdc, and the new one I installed SUSE 9.2 on is hda, with a brand new reiserfs, all seemed to be fine. Until I tried to mount my exisiting old reiserfs partitions of /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdc2.
Thats when I threw SUSE 9.2 into the trash and installed Fedora Core 3. It has it's own annoyances but at least it is not as terrible an experience as Pro 9.X - I will definitly skip 9.3.
Michael
SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming Posted Mar 11, 2005 16:20 UTC (Fri) by JohnBell (guest, #12625) [Link] I've never understood why the "purple hair" crowd has trouble with SuSE. I am running 9.1 Pro right now. I am running it using both ext3 and XFS (using XFS for the multimedia work). I don't use ReiserFS because for many moons it was the most unstable flaky POS under-performing file system I had ever seen. Sounds like it still is.
If you're going to dye your head three shades of purple and stick your chest out to show off your KMFM t-shirt on a daily basis, go all the way and rice out your box with Gentoo. Fedora Core 3 a step up from SuSE Pro? Whatever floats your boat...
SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming Posted Mar 11, 2005 19:16 UTC (Fri) by mightyduck (guest, #23760) [Link] My impression is that there testing ever went downhill since they wereacquired by Novell. SUSE 9.1 was a f*cking disaster because we have a lot of systems with XFS (we use XFS also for root partitions) so we couldn't install it at all at the beginning. And SUSE 9.2 has at least 2 serious bugs which affect us, the nscd is crashing immediately if you use LDAP as name service (which I could imagine a lot of enterprise users do) and the cups-polld is dying if you restart the print server it is polling. I agree that these bugs don't really affect home users but they should've tested 9.2 at least at some enterprises. That's what you get with a public beta.
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