SuSE 8.2 approaches computing Nirvana (Register) [LWN.net]

The Register has a glowing review of SuSE Linux 8.2. "There's a lot to like in SuSE's latest edition, 8.2, and little to complain about. There are security enhancements and graphics tweaks partly due to KDE 3.1, and major administration bonuses in YaST-2. It's clear that SuSE has worked hard to accommodate the corporate desktop market as well as the home user since edition 8.1, which we did not recommend. It appears the company is serious about tempting a mixed-species shop of Linux servers and Windows desktops to harmonize in favor of Linux and thus save considerably on administration costs. Microsoft should worry about the strides SuSE is making in this area."

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SuSE 8.2 approaches computing Nirvana (Register)

Posted May 10, 2003 19:49 UTC (Sat) by thoeme (subscriber, #2871) [Link]

I have read that review of El Reg, and it persuaded me of buying a copy of SuSE 8.2
Pro. Being a SuSE user since 4.4, one of the really annoying things about an update
from one SuSE version to another is that always something stopped running for good
and was very hard or impossible (for me) to fix. So I stopped buying all the
"intermediate" versions and just bought the big version jumps.
So I have now (I'm sitting in front of it) installed an update from 8.0 to 8.2, and this time
it really worked 99% flawless, the rest mostly caused by myself changing options.
One thing during the update: My 8.0 was very up-to-date with KDE, which meant that the
KDE packages were newer than the ones from the 8.2 dvd. 8.2 upgrade complained
pagewise about dependency problems (all graphcal and nice) but would not offer a
solution, just "ignore". But "ignoring" all these dependency problems gave me big
warning message about "very possible getting a very unstable system". The solution
was to manually downgrade all KDE to the 8.2 dvd versions, get them installed,
download the SuSE 8.2 KDE upgrades and install them. SInce then, everything's bliss....