A quick look at the SUSE 9.1 beta and RC2
Just found this Preview at Linux. com I was eager to get my hands on the newest version of SUSE Linux, the first version produced by the company under the Novell corporate umbrella.
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Just found this Preview at Linux.com
if u want to read the complete look
click here
btw: if it´s final to buy then i´m the first in Germany :-)
I was eager to get my hands on the newest version of SUSE Linux, the first version produced by the company under the Novell corporate umbrella. Like many others, I wondered how it would jell. SUSE has been a leading commercial proponent of the KDE desktop environment. Common wisdom the past few years has held that if you liked KDE, SUSE was your best bet. If Gnome was your choice, Red Hat was the best way to go. Prior to the SUSE purchase, Novell acquired Ximian, with its deep involvement with the Gnome project. Would KDE suddenly find itself a second class environment on the distro that loved it? Many feared that would be the case. What I learned with the beta should go a long way towards allaying those fears.
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if u want to read the complete look
click here
btw: if it´s final to buy then i´m the first in Germany :-)
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Found this Preview at Linux.com
Headline: An in-depth look at SUSE 9.1 RC2
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Headline: An in-depth look at SUSE 9.1 RC2
Here is our promised in-depth look at the latest SUSE 9.1 beta. I found a little more flakiness than I would be comfortable with long-term, but I have been using this near-final version in my day-to-day work for nearly a week now and see no reason to go back to my previous installation.
Instead of installing RC2 on the low-powered test box with which I tested an earlier beta version, I decided to thoroughly exercise the beta by installing it on my desktop machine. The desktop box is powered by a AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor with 512MB of SDRAM. The install was polite, quick, and painless.
The installer in RC2 is a well-mannered beast. You won't find yourself accidentally installing SUSE a second time because you forgot to remove the CD from the drive; though it recognizes the bootable CD, the default action is to boot from the hard drive.
My desktop system has three hard drives and an ATAPI IDE CD-ROM. One drive is dedicated to my /home directory, another is strictly for backup and swap, and the third holds Linux itself. The installer made it quick and easy to designate each drive properly. The only change I made to my current partitioning was to use SUSE's default ReiserFS on the / partition instead of ext3. The other two filesystems remained ext3. I chose the default software offerings.
Slightly more than 15 minutes after starting, the installer rebooted from the hard drive and installation continued. A few minutes later it asked me to insert CD2, and not long after that it prompted me for a root password. It configured by network connection automatically; I took the opportunity to test the connection when it was offered, and it worked just fine.
After I added a local user, the installation procedure finalized the install by configuring my sound, video, printer, and Hauppauge WinTV card, all without input from me. SUSE called the printer an HP 840C instead of an 842C, but I don't think that matters. The basic install was complete in just a hair over 30 minutes.
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