First Look at SUSE LINUX Professional 9.1 (MadPenguin) [LWN.net]

MadPenguin reviews the soon to be released SUSE LINUX Professional 9.1. "SUSE LINUX 9.1 is an excellent Linux distribution for the price. At $89.95 USD, you would be hard pressed to find a better package. Sure, you can download Linux all day long from the Internet for free, but in no way does that give anything back to the developers who innovate. You are showing support for them by running and promoting their software to others, but nothing helps keep development flowing like cold hard cash. SUSE is worth the price. For the 90 days of installation support, online and email support, as well as the plethora of packages that are included, you simply can't go wrong. One thing people frequently miss when comparing Linux distributions and pricing is the included applications. I'm not just talking about the quantity, but the quality. So many distros these days have apps that are just 'broken', not working, and trouble to work with. I visited as many apps as possible during my review and everything worked. This to me is a huge selling point."

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First Look at SUSE LINUX Professional 9.1 (MadPenguin)

Posted Apr 18, 2004 9:59 UTC (Sun) by juanjux (guest, #11652) [Link]

In the linked article:

"Well, for starters this will be the first commercial Linux release built
on a production 2.6 kernel."

Mmmm, what about Mandrake 10.0 Official? Now it seems like every
distribution (except Debian, I hope :) claims to be the first to release
with kernel 2.6 (and I'm not saying Mandrake was the first).

"The K Menu (similar to the Windows Start menu) has been reworked and
organized to an extent that it makes many other distros look pale in
comparison [...] they have grouped applications into menus with names
like Chat, Web Browsers, and E-Mail. Inside of those menus are common
application names such as KMail, Kopete [...]"

This guy seriously need to have a look at the new Mandrake.