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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Regarding the comment "Manual update for nVidia drivers are still necessary to fully exploit the hardware" found in the article. It should be noted that Novell provides an optional package to be installed via YOU (YaST Online Update) called "fetchnvidia" (aka: Download NVIDIA drivers) which will fetch and auto-install NVIDIA 3D drivers. Unfortunately there is no script yet for ATI users. Anyway, just as with Windows that doesn't supply 3D drivers with the OS it's the same with Linux distributions. The user can either choose to manually install the latest 3D driver from NVIDIA or ATI (depending on GPU) or choose the auto-install script mentioned for NVIDIA users. I believe Novell is the only Linux developer to offer such a script to auto-install 3D drivers. Not surprising considering their exceptional hardware Plug & Play (aka: Hot Plug) support.
Also it should be noted that Novell provides support for a wide variety of graphics GPU both non-DCC (ie: Geforce/Radeon) and DCC (Quadro, FireGL, Wildcat). A list of the supported cards can be found in YaST as well the "SuSE Linux Hardware Database" http://cdb.suse.de/index.php?LANG=en_UK