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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Ken, Kevin: Another problem with 9.1 was the kernel in use. The USB code in the kernel got a pretty major rewrite after 9.1 was released. I bought a simple USB external hard drive that refused to work with 9.1. I upgraded to the latest kernel and boom - drive works!
So 9.2 benefits from the better USB code in the newer kernels and of course - the engineering that SuSE puts in to get hotplug and persistent device names and all that working.
Latest kernels from Kernel of the Day: http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/
I don't have to tell you that experimenting with a new kernel every day could be hazardous to your system, do I? ;-)