“SuSE is well known in Europe, though less so in the US. It is, however, often available in stores here, along with Red Hat and Mandrake versions of Linux. As a desktop OS, it offers a good installer, a vast selection of applications and an excellent set of utilities–features that make it an excellent business desktop choice. However, if you’re a GNOME user looking for the latest 2.0 desktop, you’d better look elsewhere.” Read the review at LinuxJournal.
Linux Review: SuSE Linux 8.1 Professional
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I am so tired with reviews that go:
“This is how you install it.. and the configuration tools are like that … end of review …hated it or liked it”
Rarely do peopple talk about what it is like working within the distro for a week for two.
Rarely does anyone delve into items like general ui or menu sorting or other things. There are exception Eugenia don’t jump me here but there are too many reviews like this don’t say hardly anything at all except they did not like the Gnome support. SuSE is to KDE like Redhat is to Gnome in many ways. If you like KDE BTW I feel that SuSE is a good fit because the system configuration tools are right there in the KDE control center and are integrated well.
The only really revealing thing about this review was the availability of Gnustep. I have to try that out being a big WindowMaker fan back in the day.
There’s too many lame-ass Linux ‘reviews’ floating around, and I think it’s pointless to post any of them, much less try and get all of them.
IMHO, if the reviewer doesn’t use it for at least one week exclusively (or as much as possible anyway), then it counts for nothing.
hey, that’s why we got osnews.. 😉
GNUstep isn’t a version of OpenStep. It is a clone of it. No OpenStep code in it. In fact, the architecture is quite different.
> if you’re a GNOME user looking for the latest 2.0 desktop, you’d better look elsewhere.
> installing and enabling GNOME as the GUI is not a simple process
like during the installation of SuSE, Select software, check GNOME, press Accept. Oh, and don’t forget to select “GNOME” when you log in the first time!
Three clicks (or is it four?), no thinking involved. It’s easier than installing a plug-n-play PC card modem with its own driver disk under Windows 98. In fact, the reviewer has seen this option one screen before he could make his “Installation Screenshot”. And if the reviewer likes Gnome so much, he surely must know how to edit the menu.
I found one point in SuSE 8.1 where Gnome support is lacking: if I want help on Grip, the file manager starts looking for help at ghelp:///, instead of / . Now, if the entire Gnome help system is like that, I’ll never find out how to fix it.
Hi,
I tried to install SuSE 8.1 on a Compaq ML370 with a Smart Array controller. After the installation the system stops booting while initializing the controller.
FreeBSD 4.7 took me 2 minutes to install – the hardware is ok.
The old SuSE 8.0 finally worked – really great!
Ciao,
Sebastian