The new version of SuSE Linux 7.3 is now starting to show up in many mirrors around the world and it is becoming available for download. You can read the review of SuSE 7.3 on NewsForge: “For me, getting SuSE 7.3 Personal installed and running was a lot like having a baby — it was painful and took a long time. But baby, am I ever happy with the result.” Tina Gasperson writes. However, TheRegister journalist Thomas C Greene, after having big troubles (read the ‘related stories’ at the end of this article to get the feeling of the context story) installing RedHat 7.2 in his Dell machine, reports that the SuSE installation went just fine.
SuSE 7.3 Available for Download
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Hi,
I have been using SuSE since version 7.1, however I try out all new releases on a seperate hard disk to see whats going on with them.
I also switched to it from Mandrake at about version 7.2 (after leaving BeOS land
near the end of R5 )
SuSE is easily the best commercial distro at the moment, its a clean, professional package that makes you realise that Linux is ready for the desktop and at the same time is excellent for production servers. I am an system administrator at a goverment agency and managed to get them to switch all 7 Linux servers over to SuSE 7.2.
The YaST tools is simply amazing, yes it does seem to take a while to load up, about 45 seconds, but I think its worth the wait.
…However, SuSE has been suffering from lack of profitability, having been forced to close down their offices in the USA and reduce staff – due to high cost of development in Germany. Also, SuSE’s development takes place completely behind closed doors and no public betas are provided for testing. The release cycle is more frequent (SuSE released three versions in 2001) and they have a policy of not making the software available for download long after the boxed versions are in stores. Even so, SuSE does not provide ISO images of their distribution, relying on packaged software for the vast majority of their user base…
The download for 7.3 come in the form of a Live Evaluation. This is an iso image of the 7.3 system that runs of off a cd and does not modify the partitions on the disk. The problem is that I have tried to run it on two different computers now and they both do the same thing – HANG. I have not gotten this thing up an running once yet and I have been trying for two days. The GUI installer goes through all the steps of location, root user and user creation and then goes into an install step (where it is supposed to copy the /home directory and usr files to the first FAT or ext2 partition on your system. I gets to 10% and hangs forever. HELP – WTF is wrong with this thing?
>WTF is wrong with this thing?
Probably is just buggy. Please make a full bug report to SuSE, mentioning your hardware spec and the exact problem.
It run on my PC just OK (7.3 Live Evaluation).