Review: SuSE Linux 9 (NewsForge)

Review: SuSE Linux 9 (NewsForge)

Posted Nov 14, 2003 13:29 UTC (Fri) by jegjessing (guest, #16857)
In reply to: Review: SuSE Linux 9 (NewsForge) by pblanco
Parent article: Review: SuSE Linux 9 (NewsForge)

I also switched to SuSE. I tried SuSE way back at version 7 something,
but I could install it at all. At that time I had been using Rh for a
long time.
One of the fun stuff with Linux at that point was that you had to do a
lot of compiling and stuff to make things really work. Windows was
boring. You installed a lot of programs. Sometimes they worked and
sometimes the did'nt, if they did, bad luck nothing to do about that
(almost)
Now, with SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 Linux is just as boring :-) Except for the not
working stuff. Of course there will allways be hardware combinations that
won't work. I've tried that on RH, Debian, Windows, OS/2 you name it.
I'm especially happy about the OpenOffice because at work I really needed
to be able to use office applications that is really compatible with M$.
Now the only problem is printers, way too many printers are unsupported.
And if there is a problem with SuSE it is that compiling e.g. KDE3.2 is a
pain, simply becuase SuSE has done so much work on integrating a lot of
stuff into KDE.

I'm only a bit scared about Novell buying SuSE, did (and I'm probably
wring here) they not buy Corel Linux? Also a KDE based distro, and where
is that now?

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