
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.
i initially installed 64bit 9.2 on my dell laptop. due to architecture dependency of the rpms there are bunch of software that i need to recomplie: knetmon, firestarter, stardict, gaim, azureus and some theme files. worst of all bunch of xine files( quicktime and wmv video files problem no sound no video...
and then i found out wacom tablet doesnt work in 64bit xorg server. the same config in xf86config failed on the 64bit distro.
in the end i went back to 32bit, everythings fine now.
aside from the rants above, the following works fine:
nvidia 3d driver
external lcd monitor (vga out)
notebook power management (suspend, sleep)