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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Great review Eugenia! And great post, Rob, to get things back on track!
The istallation screen - that you said is sort of like a web page - they introduced that in 8 and it caught me off guard. Depending on your hardware, it will say what has been configured and what has not, etc. But, if you don't check it out, you could easily move on to the next phase not realizing everything hasn't been configured. I installed 8.1 PE the other day and was prepared for that this time :-)
YAST2 is the big thing with SuSE. It is very full featured and handy. I'm infatuated with Red Hat 8 right now, but it is YAST that has kept me using SuSE ever since 7.1
I remember when SuSE 8 came out, many people were surprised that the usually conservative SuSE would come out with a distro with KDE 3 just having come out (and included with 8). Now I am sort of surprised - it seems lik eSuSE has spent the time since 8 tinkering wit these things like package installation and has made it less intuitive than before. Except for the fonts, I too like the basic "look" of 8.1. SuSE is always good. Yet, even in the PE version, things seem a bit more complicated.
Thanks for the in depth review!