Linked by David Adams on Fri 11th Jul 2008 04:10 UTC
A few weeks ago, the OpenSUSE Project announced the release of OpenSUSE 11.0, the "community" edition of SUSE Linux, Novell's commercial Linux distribution. Here it's taken for a test drive.
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I wanted to use it as a Samba server but it's all horribly incomplete. The shares sort of work, the printer connects, but as far as I know only in Vista - the only Vista box we have, the rest are all XP and quite frankly the headache inducing torment of the samba user account handling is horrid.
Suse 9.3 when I tried it was so much better but it seems they've really let the server side down too much since then. It used to be basic, like Ubuntu but robust like a true UNIX machine should be. That's what it should be, maybe they've aimed it at the desktop market too heavily now at the expense of versatility? At least it's stable, they seem to get that bit right.
Now it just seems to sort of be on the same track as Fedora...all glitz and glamour and bleeding edge but nothing solid underneath...but at least Fedora acts more complete, esp. as a server. I think we'll stick to a distro that works as a decent Samba server. I was lead to believe that Suse was a good server distro, whoever says so isn't a network administrator in a business. I signed up today just to post this, that's how fed up I am with it. No I didn't RTFA coz I don't care anymore.
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I wanted to use it as a Samba server but it's all horribly incomplete. The shares sort of work, the printer connects, but as far as I know only in Vista - the only Vista box we have, the rest are all XP and quite frankly the headache inducing torment of the samba user account handling is horrid.
Suse 9.3 when I tried it was so much better but it seems they've really let the server side down too much since then. It used to be basic, like Ubuntu but robust like a true UNIX machine should be. That's what it should be, maybe they've aimed it at the desktop market too heavily now at the expense of versatility? At least it's stable, they seem to get that bit right.
Now it just seems to sort of be on the same track as Fedora...all glitz and glamour and bleeding edge but nothing solid underneath...but at least Fedora acts more complete, esp. as a server. I think we'll stick to a distro that works as a decent Samba server. I was lead to believe that Suse was a good server distro, whoever says so isn't a network administrator in a business. I signed up today just to post this, that's how fed up I am with it. No I didn't RTFA coz I don't care anymore.
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