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Since Novell eated Suse, there were big moves in Suse Linux distributions.

It was a rumour at the beggining, but now it's real : Novell as launch an openSuse distribution which is a communarity project managed (humm sponsorised sorry ) by Novell as Fedora project for Redhat.

In future there is a rumour saying that Novell project to continue the "SUSE Linux professionnal" developpement as a communarity open project (may be it'll increase extern developers motivation).

Finally you can download OpenSuse here : http://opensuse.org/index.php/Download

I think that novell has seen what fedora has done for Redhat. And thought on how this can separate Desktop Suse from a more streamlined less desktop more enterprise setup like RHLES

I have SUSE and I like it. But after formatting my HARDDRIVE i gave up on it so now i only have Xandros.

When i tested suse in my ~300mhz computer, it didn't start. It installed ok (took very very long), but when i tried to start X, nothing. I think my graphics card is too old or monitor is too old...

I really dont know anybody that still uses SUSE linux.. At a time it was cleaner and faster to install out of the box, but now alot of linux distros are that way. I just dont know what makes SUSE stand out.. not mention Novell.

Dtgr wrote:When i tested suse in my ~300mhz computer, it didn't start. It installed ok (took very very long), but when i tried to start X, nothing. I think my graphics card is too old or monitor is too old...

A friend has reported that SuSE 9.3 ran unusably slow on his 700 MHz computer. I guess, your's is too slow. Try using SuSE 8.2 oder SuSE 7.3.

it runs "fine" on my pIII 800MHz with basic instalation

Nice cool link Thx linux mate

Dunno but i kinda never liked suses at all ... it was just like the windows wannabe linux thing .. dunno really. I'll have to try it out once for a longer time than i did the last time when i formated it 1h later then i installed it.

Greetings knedl.

SuSE is absolutely brilliant for the newb, as long as you have the hardware to run it. If someone just wants to run Linux and try it out with as little problems and self-configuring, then I definately recommend SuSE.

goose wrote:I really dont know anybody that still uses SUSE linux.. At a time it was cleaner and faster to install out of the box, but now alot of linux distros are that way. I just dont know what makes SUSE stand out.. not mention Novell.

SuSE has a very complete configuration tool (YaST). I agree more and more distros have that too, now, but I think YaST is still one of the most complete ones, no?
Furthermore, its very "polished" (well, at least it used to be -- its been a while since I used it).
I"m not a total SuSE fan myself (Debian ), but I can understand why people would want to use it (especially those who just want to use the system, instead of "getting under the hood").

Ludootje wrote:SuSE has a very complete configuration tool (YaST). I agree more and more distros have that too, now, but I think YaST is still one of the most complete ones, no?

That's true. YaST is far more complete than any other (not command-line based) configuration tool. No, other distributions don't beat that currently.

Ludootje wrote:Furthermore, its very "polished" (well, at least it used to be -- its been a while since I used it).

YaST 1 is a bit bad structured in my opinion, but YaST 2 has a very clear structure. However, regarding this other distributions do that equally well.

Ludootje wrote:I"m not a total SuSE fan myself (Debian 8) ), but I can understand why people would want to use it (especially those who just want to use the system, instead of "getting under the hood").

I agree with that. SuSE is a distribution for users, while other distributions will require background knowledge at some point. They are constantly improving though.

What I don't like about SuSE is that it's trying to windowsize Linux. By that it also has some of the bad properties of Windows, like instability and bugs. I'd still prefer SuSE over Windows though.

i have an suse linux 10.0 on my pc and i'm very happy with this distribuition very recommended

aint this like beta software?

I recently got a new laptop and tried OpenSuSE 10.0 on it (I heard it had "great wireless tools") and was very disappointed. The interface was slick and appealing to the eye, but it didn't come with any "magic tool" to configure my wireless card (which is working now, thanks to "acer_acpi" and "ndiswrapper" kernel modules).

It was also extremely distressing to be able to pull up a command prompt, have it be transparent, see that 495 MB of RAM are being used for this "graphic feat," and then notice that slocate doesn't exist!

... I think Novell was so interested in releasing an "open" project that they forgot to include Linux with it