SuSE 9.0 advance announcement [LWN.net]

SuSE 9.0 advance announcement

Posted Oct 1, 2003 9:14 UTC (Wed) by miannac (guest, #11411)
Parent article: SuSE 9.0 advance announcement

Suse is a great Desktop distribution but recent releases don't work anymore on low end systems.

Suse 8.2 for example is a pain to be installed on 32MB RAM systems (just a simple example: installation program requires a swap file to run with that ammount of memory but there is no way to get a prompt to create it - ALT-F2,F3 not working).

I know that those systems are not good enogh for a graphic workstation (expecially if used with KDE) but still can be perfect as router, firewall, file server, etc.

Another limitation is that the package selection is terribly slow on low end systems and there is no option to preselect a tipical server installation.

I hope that Suse 9.0 provide support also for low end systems with no/limited X11.

Any reader is part of their beta program? Can you anticipate if those are still issues?

regards,
ianna

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SuSE 9.0 advance announcement

Posted Oct 16, 2003 16:26 UTC (Thu) by gerardo (guest, #16060) [Link]

About Graphic applications

One problem faced by me was the use of graphic applications in Linux. I am well adapted to Suse Linux since version 6.3. One problem faced with version 7.0 on was the installation of CorelDraw for Linux. I got bad results and a instable program that shutted down without notice.
There is a new graphic vector program: Sodipodi. I tested its behaviour it is unstable and not able to read other formats. However the quality of design tools is excellent. I hope the new Linux Suse 9.0 has an actualized version ( now it is going by 0.32). It seem to be more stable and can export the work to a form the Gimp can read. I could not install the Sodipodi 0.32 in Suse 8.0 but I had success in RedHat 9.0. All these graphic tool problems should be solved in the near future. A lot of people is working with graphic applications in Windows just because they are more reliable.
A task to archieve !!
Gerardo Bossi