Review: SUSE 9 Professional (UnixReview.com) [LWN.net]

UnixReview has a review of the preview release of SUSE Linux 9 Professional. "Because SUSE 9 is a major version jump (from 8.2 to 9.0), I expected the release to be significantly different from its predecessor. It definitely has some improvements, but it seems like more of a point release than a major jump. SUSE 9.0 is a modest upgrade from SUSE 8.2. There are a number of improvements, but it's not the major leap that many Linux users may be used to. The additional YaST modules may be the best reason for upgrading."

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Review: SUSE 9 Professional (UnixReview.com)

Posted Oct 30, 2003 3:33 UTC (Thu) by vblum (subscriber, #1151) [Link]

Fabulous review! Although I must say, the mention of certain bugs makes ma a bit
uncomfortable. SuSE's graphics configuration was never painfree for me, and I could never
understand why. So, this seems to me more like an ongoing story than a surprise.

There is one good reason to upgrade, I suppose, and that is their (stable) kernel version ...
2.4.20 was old for 8.2, and I do hope that some of the latest Intel network adapters are now
supported.

Imagine my embarrassment when I installed a brand new computer for a brand new SuSE
user with the brand new SuSE 8.2, of all things the network adapter doesn't work, and their
much-hyped installation support tells me that network cards are not a core feature of a
computer and are hence not supported. Yes, they do say that for the server-style
distribution ("professional"). Ouch.

Yes, I know we should have tried Debian. Yes, I know we might have compiled 2.4.21. But, I
suppose installing an old NIC was just simpler ...

thanks!