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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Anand, RobertN, TheCenter and JoeBlowHard: Regarding powermanagement and ACPI. Please understand that it's not always Linux at fault! Many manufacturers have broken ACPI BIOS implementations; they provide software level workarounds when they write the Windows drivers. And switch to MacOSX for laptop support.. come on, they make the hardware AND they make the software.. how can you go wrong with that?! :-)
As a workaround, disable ACPI and fall back to APM. I know, you won't get all the ACPI niceties but at least you don't get a burned laptop! :-) Anand, I have an IBM R40 and ACPI has never ever worked for me with any of the distros I've tried. Switch to APM and u'll get working Suspend and (sorta) working Hibernate.
ATI Drivers: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/
Reg Firefox 1.0: The rpms that Zeke pointed to are not official. They are built by SuSE employees and usually use the same build infrastructure. Nevertheless - they are officially unsupported.
Bill Shahan: Have you got OOo-quickstart running? That caused problems on logout for me.
Wireless support: This is again a manufacturer support issue. No drivers and unreleased hardware specs - how do you support such hardware? Still, thanks to ndiswrapper, lots of windows only cards now work. I beleive Centrino wireless works out of the box with SuSE 9.2 (and other new distros like Ubuntu). Centrino certainly works with 9.1 as I have it running personally.
Take a look at my SuSE 9.1 page for more tips on laptop support and getting the latest KDE/GNOME installed.
http://www.antrix.net/stuff/suse_thinkpad/