On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:47:05PM -0500, Branimir Vasilic wrote:
I have used 2.6.8 vanilla and it sucks. SuSE patched it up well, but a SuSE
I guess it depends on the hardware and the applications you use. The installation was bumpy for me (worst experience with SuSE yet) but afterwards I got all my hardware working with not more problems than with previous SuSE versions. The only thing I couldn't fix is this smbfs problem. All the problems I had came from the security updates..
This may or may not be relevant, but as soon as it was released I installed SuSE 9.2 on a spare IBM ThinkCentre A50p that I own, and experienced all kinds of strange issues due to kernel panics, system lockups, the system seemingly losing track of time and similar unexplained issues. Other SuSE versions (and FreeBSD Stable) had run fine on the same machine. I recently discovered though: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TCTR-ERRN91 Since installing this Critical BIOS update, all problems have disappeared and SuSE 9.2 installs, and runs, as solidly and with the stability that I am used to from SuSE products. Anyone struggling with SuSE 9.2 on any of the IBM hardware products listed in the above advisory may benefit from downloading and applying the BIOS update. -- Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net