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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APCI:
I have installed SLP 9.2 on a Dell and an HP notebook. I was disapointed to find the suspend/sleep buttons didn't work, but then found it is due to APCI not configured at install. If you go to Yast-->PowerManagement, enable suspend, then select APCI settings. Both computers suspend to disk fine, tried many times. I haven't tried suspend to RAM.
On other fronts, I especially like being able to select from my docked/undocked profile at boot. Undocked, I select 1024x768. Docked I select 1200x1024 (21" monitor).
I have smartcard readers, USB pen drives, USB sound card (Dell lattitude, no audio in), USB drives, everything simply worked. It is a little slow/jerky when you plug a USB device in for a few seconds. The only things that don't work are on the DELL.
1) CD player, have to use XMMS with digital read,
2) Dell conexant modem. 14.4 unless I pay $19.99 for the regular driver. I just just my trusty external modem.
GVTC Dridged DSL (Dell) perfect, no configuration. SBCYahooDSL (HP) perfect. No configuration required.
Well, let's put it this way, the HP is my girlfriends with Linux now because she has been infected with spyware/virii 6 times in 4 months with 4 re-installs in XP. The last time, get this, in the time it took to connect to the web and download SP2, it was REINFECTED. It now runs linux and she is completely happy.
Kevin
P.S. IT is still arguing with me. XP refuses to work docked (Windows VPN client required to connect to a customer), neither the keyboard or mouse work docked (makes press CTRL-ALT-DEL hard to do). They insist the keyboard and mouse are bad, but concede it is strange that they work flawlesslessly, docked, in Linux.