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 tried suse 9.2 at home, it's just as bad as 9.1 when it first came out, isn't it?
1. installing the developer software-group (not active by default) installes not just the c compiler
and kernel source for the current kernel, but also a usermode-linux kernel. It then messes up the
config by replacing /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd so that the machine tries to boot with that
usermode-kernel - which of course fails before even mounting the rootfilesystem via reiserfs module.
The fix was to use the grub menu to edit the parameters to load the correct one and then after booting
fix the menu.lst up.
2. now that that works, it runs fine until I try to mount my other reiserfs partition from /dev/hdc1 that
was there from a previous suse 9.1 installation. system freezes, nothing in the logs.
3. now I installed fedora core 3 and am failry happy. That suse pro stuff is banana software - ripens in the
customers hands. I guess Novell has changed the priorities for SUSE in favour of the enterprise edition?
Before 9.1 I could always recommend SUSE Pro but since then it seems the QA is missing a lot.
Michael