
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.
The last two versions of SuSE cured me from it. More USB problems than one may stand with my equipment, no reaction on the detailed bugreport, bugs, bugs and some more bugs, kernel updates via YOU that fry your system ... yes SuSE WAS a killer Distro and it still seems on the first glance, but if you go out to check some of the stuff thats on the DVD and which is not chosen by default much of it gives a crashmanager notification and that's it, if you begin to really work with the system you may remark a dozen hickups and glitches everywhere. For comparison: SuSE 9.1 Updates: 2.1 GB, Mandrake 10.0 updates: 1.2 GB and they fixed the same security holes, so the difference is bugs ... Try Mandrake, try Mepis and you'll feel the difference in quality ...