Linked by Steve Barnhart on Tue 18th Nov 2003 01:36 UTC
I recently picked up a copy of SuSE 9.0 Professional. I have never used or been familiar with a SuSE product before as I've only used Mandrake, Red Hat, and a bit of Debian. After using Red Hat for a while I decided to evaluate SuSE and I am now sorry for not having tried it sooner.
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I'm not so sure about SuSe anymore.
I was raving about it a few days back, but now it's become a pain in the arse !
My experience is of a very buggy nature.
Example - logging out of Gnome and into KDE and back can often cause my one test machine to hang.
Or on another machine at my office, installing Nvidia drivers can cause a hardware lockup, always resulting in a mandatory fsck which you then have to reboot to check properly !
Frustrating !
The install is stunning, until you take a step back and realise a very important feature - services !
Where's the familiar list of services from Mandrake, Redhat or even Slackware ?
Well, I did find them in the install eventually - I ran the YaSt setup tool and found I could edit "runlevel" daemons, so I decided to enable lisa (KDE windows network browser) and the install hung - I still had CAPS LOCK operational, but nothing would escape me out.
Hard Reboot.
I really want to like this distribution - the sheer volume of software, slick install and functional desktop make it shine.
But in my experience, the shine is sometimes blinding, because frustrating bugs on the platforms I tested on were too frequent.