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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As expected, 9.2 does not offer anything revolutionary. That's okay as long as the box works. But some things i never loved with SUSE is that:
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1. the installation takes much too long. SUSE is the slowest rpm-based distro i have seen and i have tested a lot of dirrerent distros.
2. that SUSE does things differently than others, thus chaning the overall system-layout and making migration from SUSE to e.g. debian or <enter distro of choice> more difficult. nearly nothing is at the same place or handled the same ways in the /etc folder
3. too KDE-centric. It might suit many users to have a full-fledged KDE desktop but imho, the KDE style is not far away from Windows XP's Fisher-Price style. When will there be a beautiful KDE desktop??? (yes, start a flame war if you want. i don't care ...