Linked by Anand Vaidya on Wed 5th Jan 2005 18:19 UTC
On October 22, 2004, Novell released SUSE Linux Professional 9.2 (abbreviated as SLP9.2 henceforth) targeted at the home user and Linux enthusiast crowd. Since I am already using SUSE 9.1 for my daily work on my IBM laptop, I was quite eager to check out 9.2. SLP9.1 is already a very polished Linux distribution, with tons of software ready to go. So here's a SuSE user's review of 9.2 after several weeks using the new version. Update: Also see some 9.2 screenshots with KDE and Gnome.
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I have the pro cds and yea I would have to agree with the author on the good points. I submit however, that advanced users might not like it though because suse has a ton more config files because of yast in etc than I've seen in most distros. So its harder to find what you need to edit in some cases to get the affect.
Also, while it ran fine for the most part on his Athlon 64, Suse runs sluggish on a PIII 500 mhz, hell some of the yast modules dont even seem to load and seem to just hang, which I use. I found that slackware with the same software runs quicker, though I do admit going to from the 2.4 kernel to the 2.6 kernel adds some sluggishness (as least thats what i personally notice).
Now this might be a bug that was fixed by an update but I notced that when using yast over ssh it didn't seem to save my settings, at least for setting up a vnc server (although I admit their command line driven part of yast is impressive by look anyway).
Anyways these are just my experiences I would like to contribute. I am in fact using Suse 9.2 right now and I think its a good distro for new people with moderatly new computers. (My only rant being the lack of codec support but just install the xine and codec rpm files from another website, you can google and find the win32 codecs in suse format).