What a windows user need to install or use in SuSE Linux 9 to complete the same tasks he get use to in Windows? What are the difficulties encountered and what are the potential weakness of this distribution? Read the review here.
SuSE 9 Review Part 2: from Windows to Linux, Everyday Tasks
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That was a nice review, Cedric. I haven’t used Suse in quite a while, and by the looks of it, it’s time to revisit!
Thanks Cedric!
But I’m not sure about eMule for P2P. While it’s great for downloading 650MB ISOs, I find Kazaa Lite to be much better for smaller files. Ah well, that runs under Wine, so no biggie
Also, any of those IM clients better than Trillian Pro?
I’m downloading the Suse boot ISO. Is the Suse installer graphical?
They have a nice graphical installer based on YaST. Go and download it
I’m glad I pushed through the writer’s English, and found that underneath there was a better Windows->Linux article than one usually encounters.
> Is the Suse installer graphical?
Not in thye begin, only after you managed the ftp ip number 195.33.245.123 vyou want to download from and the ftp machine directirie /pub/linux/i386/suse/9.0/
Hope it helps
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SuSE is a good packager of Linux. Yast works ok.
it isnt because of the open source community that software is free. it is because of richard stallman and the gnu/fsf foundation
Screen savers are generally non-sense. Modern screen savers with animation, etc sucks loads of CPU. This is perverting the idea of energy saving settings because the system won’t go into sleep or whatever. Set your screen to black and get over this childish stuff. Either way, idealy you are *not* looking at your screen anyways, if the saver kicks in.
For K3B, not so quick here. Try burning a simple VCD, it will not work. You will be asked to install vcdimager 0.7.2 but it’s not on the DVD and last time I googled, I couldn’t find a Suse rpm, either — now this is a real annoyance given Suse’s price point. This is the third millennium and I can’t burn a simple VCD, uh !
While it’s great for downloading 650MB ISOs, I find Kazaa Lite to be much better for smaller files. Ah well, that runs under Wine, so no biggie
Why use Kazaa Lite under emulation, when you can use Apollon?
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9899&PHPSESSID=4cf…
Apollon can connect to the Kazaa network through FastTrack, as well as OpenNap, Gnutella and OpenFT – all at once. It’s got a very friendly UI and is very stable.
thats was a really good review, with some GREAT links.. That happen to apply to alot of the things I am working on..
Thanks!!
“For K3B, not so quick here.”
For me, I can’t burn CDs at all under Suse 9.0. I’ve found plenty of other users with the same problem (just do a search at linuxquestions.org) but no solutions. Suse “tech support” refuses to address the issue.
I tried giving my copy of Suse (which I paid for) to someone else today, their first big switch from Windows. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t detect their DSL connection, so they’re back to Windows again. As am I until I find a distro that works properly.
Paul
While you’re at it, SuSE has just posted rpm’s for KDE-3.2RC1 (=3.1.95) and more (I’m surprised they did). http://www.suse.de/en/private/download/linuks/i386/update_for_9_0/i….
nobody mentioned xmule 🙂
This is like the 50th review of Suse linux 9, is this the only operating system. NO one uses it, it is slow and buggy and they have been bought out.
Please don’t redicule yourself.
I checked Amazon sales rankings this very minute:
SuSE 9 Pro at Amazon USA: 44 – UK: 57 – Germany 19
This does not include the Personal edition and you have to take into consideration that you have download the FTP branch of Suse 9 free of charge by now. That is rather impressive given there are gazillions of distributions out there.
linux:/home/aherm # apt-get install vcdimager
Reading Package Lists… Done
Building Dependency Tree… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libcdio libvcd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libcdio libvcd vcdimager
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 removed and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 509kB of archives.
After unpacking 1052kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.0-i386/packman-i686 libcdio 0.64-0.pm.0 [92.4kB]
Get:2 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.0-i386/packman-i686 libvcd 0.7.19-0.pm.0 [150kB]
Get:3 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.0-i386/packman-i686 vcdimager 0.7.19-0.pm.0 [267kB]
Fetched 509kB in 22s (23.0kB/s)
Executing RPM (-Uvh)…
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:libcdio ########################################### [ 33%]
2:libvcd ########################################### [ 67%]
3:vcdimager ########################################### [100%]
linux:/home/aherm #
I downloaded the entire SuSE tree and did an FTP install on my local network. Everything worked great. It then took me two days to configure it. It didn’t play DVDs. It had no cross-over plugin. It didn’t play DIVX movies. My sound card didn’t work. It didn’t see the network shares at my company. Eventually I did get everything to work but I had to jump through a lot of hoops…beginning with that FTP install…in order to get it to work.
Then I went and bought Xandros 2.0 because a friend said it was great and it got some good reviews. It played DIVX movies out of the box, it saw all of our network shares at work, it had cross-over so I could load Word and Outlook and Quicktime. My sound card worked. What can I say…I’m converted. I just like things that work without a lot of hassle. I’m not new to Linux, I’ve struggled with it for years, but I am very happy that it has matured to this point and look forward to even greater stuff to come.
I’m a computer technician. I love computers and I love computer challenges. But I have to say right here and now, that every single Linux I’ve tried sux in the worst way. I’m tired of the “you gotta be a hacker” excuses. I’m tired of spending 48 hours without sleep tracking down why Linux won’t work on my very, very standard computer system!
The latest Linux nightmare was Suse. Once again, another distro that failed my rather high expectations miserably! Didn’t pick up my Logitech webcam, or my Microtech E6 Scanner (that had a gazillion entries in it in the hardware config file for it in Yast but didn’t work at all).
I hate Microsoft and will continue to hate all they stand for. I don’t feel they’re ethical and moral, and they keep tech from poor people. It’s a scam and a shame. Don’t get me wrong here. I’m not ever going to give up torturing myself by reformatting my hard drive and makin’ new partitions every few months to try a distro. I’m an open minded skeptic. I just don’t have the time, to spend all my time on the long time it’s gonna take to get Linux working perfectly! Oof. That’s a mouth full
Well that’s my opinion, and it’s just that, an OPINION and apologize for any inaccuracies. If that’s that case then EDUCATE ME!
XP just WORKS. Right out of the box. All drivers there, working absolutely perfectly. 100 million percent stable. On crashes. Fast n’ smooth. But fast n’ smooth does NOT describe Linux.