Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Oct 2002 07:27 UTC
If there are two things in this apartment that I don't like, that would first be the dog upstairs which barks at 5 AM almost every morning, and the fact that UPS almost never deliver things on our door. They never bother to check if we are in. The SuSE people were very kind to send us the Professional version of SuSE 8.1, but unfortunately, I received it 10 days later after it arrived in the apartment's complex. But now we got it here, we gave it a spin for almost a week, and here is what we think about it.
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>>"Very good review. Do you think I could get it to install on my P1 166Mhz? What is the hardware requirements of this OS?"
You might be able to get it installed, but there is no way you're going to get a pleasing experience out of it. You'll be MUCH better off sticking with Windows 98 on that machine (or maybe 2k if you have plenty of RAM). X is going to run like cold molasses on a P166, it doesn't matter how much RAM you throw at it.
>>"In this review, you stated on the order that the installation process is not step-by-step, but you had to click to where you wanted to customize/configure. In SuSE 8, It did this same thing. I liked it because it would let me double check the settings before I complied the distro. It reminded me of sort of a "fail-safe" way of setting up the computer."
I agree for myself, but for new users (even savvy users), this kind of free-form interface makes it very very easy to forget to do something vital, which will lead from anything to confusion to disaster later. For newbies, it would be helpful if there was a bit more linearity in the install, I think. Something more like Mandrake or Red Hat, maybe with, like Eugenia said, an "Advanced" button to give those of us who want it a free-form interface.