
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.
suse 9.2 (32bit) works very very well on an nvidia based amd64 based shuttle box. only issues are:
* that the nvidia opengl acceleration was not enabled despite the official reciple - i needed to hack it to go...
* the front facing USB ports do not work
* the sound does not work (front or back sockets)
(all the above work with windows xp home)
people may like the fact that realplayer, acrobat reader, flash plugins all just work fine...
people may not like the fact that firefox is still a very patched 0.9 series and not 1.0 ... even on the updates.