SuSE Linux 9.1 Personal Rules The Earth On Which I Walk.

[c9]

A while back Novell bought Ximian, and then SuSE, in either a great strategic move or a desperate attempt to remain relevant. Time will tell. I installed SuSE Linux 9.1 Personal on my work laptop this evening, and it rocks. simplisticton won't like it, but everybody else might.

Pretty, fast, and it hasn't flaked out on me once yet. Red Hat and Fedora *really* like to do that to me. Plus they're dog slow on the same hardware. Comes with mostly sane settings, understands my NIC and my wireless NIC, ... lots of good, no bad yet.

Stay tuned for updates.

Oh yeah, the install was really nice too.

Comments

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

I don't mind SuSE... except for the fact that default single-CD install lacks GNOME and the standard GNOME apps Evolution and Epiphany. I installed 9.1 Personal edition on Zarathustra, and it was fine, but YaST was slower than YUM (neither was speedy, it's only a 192MB 400MHz Celeron).

I just don't "get" KDE I guess. Oh well, that's a strength of Linux -- you can complelely replace the GUI if you want, or do away with it completely.

[c9.livejournal.com]

What's YUM? One thing I like so far is that it includes just one of each thing, leaving me the opportunity to add stuff if I want (and I do). Clearly, you need "BCS Linux."

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

YUM == Yellow Dog Package Manager. Kinda like up2date or YaST, but more bare-bones. It works really well though.

I don't think I need my own distro (though I did briefly toy with the idea of creating a UNB distro :-), I just prefer GNOME to KDE, and that basically means that if I want a well-integrated system, RH/Fedora is my only choice. All the other major distros use KDE as their base, and installing GNOME leaves you with a really ugly default installation.

I really do like SuSE 9.1 (I didn't care for 8, but it wasn't ready for prime-time the last time I played with it) -- in fact, it's one of the three distros I support at work (the other two being Fedora Core and RHEL-WS).