I would have to agree with you.. THen installation was a breeze.. Found everything I had rightdown to the usb camera that was a pain to set-up in 7.2/// There should be a disclaimer on the Box.. "Your mileage may vary" JMTC -----Original Message----- From: Brian W. Carver [mailto:bwcarver@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:27 PM To: suse-linux-e Subject: [SLE] 8.0 Pro Review (unfavorable) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Linuxlookup.com has a somewhat unfavorable review of 8.0 at the link below. I found the review strange as the author seems to indicate that almost everything worked fine, and what problems cropped up, he mostly managed to solve. In the end, he still rates 8.0 rather low. All I can figure is that he likes Mandrake and Red Hat a lot more or has had significantly better experiences with those. I haven't tried those, but have a hard time imagining they could install and run any more smoothly than SuSE 8.0 has for me. Do people really expect to install a full-OS without the tiniest little hickup? In my experience, installing SuSE 8.0 goes more smoothly than any Windows upgrade I ever tried! The link: http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/reviews/software/suse8.0.html - -- Brian Support EFF! http://www.eff.org/ They're defending YOUR rights online. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE87nflATQSaAIcWwsRAigDAKDHm8WbJJB9pZAmVja7bGEi8yYm2ACgmgbo mVYzuzGRGf0B6xX2gkWBuQM= =cisq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com
8.0 loaded up without a hitch and Sax2 did an excellent job. KDE3 works great and I like it better the more I use it. /Dee -----Original Message----- From: James Davis [mailto:Jdavis@cincinnatieye.com] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 9:37 AM To: suse-linux-e Subject: RE: [SLE] 8.0 Pro Review (unfavorable) I would have to agree with you.. THen installation was a breeze.. Found everything I had rightdown to the usb camera that was a pain to set-up in 7.2/// There should be a disclaimer on the Box.. "Your mileage may vary" JMTC -----Original Message----- From: Brian W. Carver [mailto:bwcarver@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:27 PM To: suse-linux-e Subject: [SLE] 8.0 Pro Review (unfavorable) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Linuxlookup.com has a somewhat unfavorable review of 8.0 at the link below. I found the review strange as the author seems to indicate that almost everything worked fine, and what problems cropped up, he mostly managed to solve. In the end, he still rates 8.0 rather low. All I can figure is that he likes Mandrake and Red Hat a lot more or has had significantly better experiences with those. I haven't tried those, but have a hard time imagining they could install and run any more smoothly than SuSE 8.0 has for me. Do people really expect to install a full-OS without the tiniest little hickup? In my experience, installing SuSE 8.0 goes more smoothly than any Windows upgrade I ever tried! The link: http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/reviews/software/suse8.0.html - -- Brian Support EFF! http://www.eff.org/ They're defending YOUR rights online.
At 09:59 24/05/02 -0800, W.D.McKinney wrote:
8.0 loaded up without a hitch and Sax2 did an excellent job. KDE3 works great and I like it better the more I use it.
I'd have to agree here. I've been a dedicated SuSE user since 6.3, and have purchased every release since - although, with the prices now in Australia, I will only be purchasing the X.0 releases from now on. I've installed 8.0 on a P75 (gateway machine, no X), a P200 (server, no X), a P233 (X with 3D and sound) and my new toy (a Quad PPRO 200), with only ONE glitch.... That was - on the P233 (workstation) I have an HP 8100i IDE cd-burner, which was detected flawlessly by YAST2, but I could not mount the same drive as a cd-rom until I realised that it was now /dev/sr0, not /dev/hdb - yeah, minor, and probably my fault, but for this to be the only glitch was a pain.... One comment I would make is about the documentation - from 7.0 it has been going down-hill fast... Down to 3 manuals now, and lots of useful stuff left out (like how to do a hard disk install).... Apart from that, no complaints about SuSE at all... Jon
At 18:11 26/05/2002 +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: [snip]
One comment I would make is about the documentation - from 7.0 it has been going down-hill fast... Down to 3 manuals now, and lots of useful stuff left out (like how to do a hard disk install)....
SuSE's manuals strike me as extremely clear and well presented. The typography is way above average and so are the production values - print, paper, binding, etc. They must cost a fortune. In a way I'm amazed that they produce them at all, or at least to this standard. Even with 8.0 you still get a lot of paper. :) Mark
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