SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming

SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming

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.
Thank god I had recreated my filesystems with reiserfs and so did not run into this issue.

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.
The system immediately locked up AGAIN.

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