Recently, Ashcrow had the privilege to sit down with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for the AMD64 and test it in a real working environment to see how it stands in comparison to other Linux offerings.
At a press conference at the LinuxWorld coference earlier today, Novell CEO Jack Messman announced that his company will be withdrawing from the UnitedLinux partnership its newly acquired subsidiary SuSE had brokered with Linux vendors SCO, Conectiva, and TurboLinux. On other SuSE news, here is yet another review, this time from Sumeet Moghe.
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 has always been one of our favorite Linux distributions and this release is no disappointment. It fine-tunes SuSE's offering and bundles a lot of value into one package. Experienced Linux users will appreciate the powerful bundled tools, while newbies will like the ease of use and stress-free installation. This version comes with five CDs, a DVD, and both user's and administrator's guides.
The SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 has recieved EAL3 Certification. This is a step up from their previous accomplishment of EAL2, which they received (in association with IBM) with their product.
"SUSE 9 offers a superb printed manual, a great installation interface, a modern KDE system in addition to the more standard, older GNOME interface, and a new kernel build. It's easy to see why Novell thought enough of the software to buy the company" says InternetWeek in their review.
"I have been using SuSE Linux Pro 9.0 for about two weeks. And here it is, finally, the review you probably haven't been asking for."Read the review at TheInquirer.
I work in a genetics research laboratory at an academic institution. Recently, a colleague of mine was having a lot of trouble with his Windows 2000 workstation. I took a look at it and determined that the ethernet card built onto the motherboard had failed, and so bought a new ethernet card to plug into an available PCI slot.
It takes less than one hour to install SuSE 9.0 Personal edition on a slow system. For that one hour investment, you'll get a slick, well-organized Linux desktop that you should be able to live with, says Librenix.
"This week's big feature is the long-promised SUSE 9 review, courtesy of Paul "madmanx" Ehrenreich and Charles "ctkrohn" Krohn. Stephan "windi" Windischmann discusses less, the replacement for the standard more pager. We also demonstrate Linux's pluggable authentication module system. Finally, Anders "w.anders" Widebrant introduces you to the awesome desktop animation tool vnc2swf."Read the review at ArsTechnica.
SuSE releases latest Linux Technology for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8: Service Pack enhancements include improved hardware support, enhanced storage access.
I recently picked up a copy of SuSE 9.0 Professional. I have never used or been familiar with a SuSE product before as I've only used Mandrake, Red Hat, and a bit of Debian. After using Red Hat for a while I decided to evaluate SuSE and I am now sorry for not having tried it sooner.
"SuSE Linux 9, the latest release from Nuremberg, Germany-based SuSE Linux, was released at the end of last month. I put SuSE Linux Professional through its paces, and found it to be the most user-friendly Linux distribution on the market. It's not a "must" update for users of previous versions, but it does have some nice perks."Read the review at NewsForge.
This is a review of Suse Linux 9.0 Professional Edition at LinuxElectrons: "This software has a retail list price of $79.95. A Personal Edition is also offered for a retail list price of $39.95. Suse also provides a free, downloadable version via ftp. However, this version only contains i386 rpm's, whereas the pay versions support i586 (Intel Pentium processors and above). AMD processors are also supported as is the Athlon 64 (64 bits)."
SuSE Linux, until now known mainly as 'that European flavor of Linux' with many Americans, is getting ready for a big push with businesses and government organizations, with the introduction of SuSE Linux 9 with 64-bit processing and 2.6 kernel enhancements to the Americas Thursday.
