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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Antrix,
Let me clear things up. I am a Windows user, or Windows whore, if you may. Over the course of a year I try to run Linux whenever a major distro revamp occurs just to see if I can finally switch for good. To be fair, Suse 9.2 is the best I've yet to try. I can live without hibernation/suspend mode. Similarily, I have read that a mere kernel update with Yast fixes the powerdown issue for many people using Suse 9.2 out of the box. However, the lack of what I deem as reliable wireless support is what truly turned me off Suse 9.2... back to being a Windows whore, for the time being. Each time I booted up Suse 9.2 there was a 50/50 chance that wireless would work for the given session; this is unacceptable. Most of the time I would have to reboot to get wireless going or sometimes I would have to run Yast to "redo" the wireless device installation. Also, the lack of an XOrg ATI driver and the inability to rever to XFree, which does have an ATI driver for it, annoyed me. The link you gave has ATI drivers for up to 9.1, which can run XFree, unlike 9.2 which exclusively runs XOrg.