Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4749 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Review There's a lot to like in SuSE's latest edition, 8.2, and little
to complain about. There are security enhancements and graphics tweaks
partly due to KDE 3.1, and major administration bonuses in YaST-2.
It's clear that SuSE has worked hard to accommodate the corporate
desktop market as well as the home user since edition 8.1, which we
did not recommend. It appears the company is serious about tempting a
mixed-species shop of Linux servers and Windows desktops to harmonize
in favor of Linux and thus save considerably on administration costs.
Microsoft should worry about the strides SuSE is making in this area.

Installation was an absolute breeze and hardly worth mentioning. I
loaded it on three machines, a home-built P4 system, an OEM Dell P3
box and a Presario Celeron laptop. There were no unpleasant surprises;
hardware detection was flawless and nearly everything I installed
worked. YaST has an automatic dependency checker which seems to have
been tweaked a bit since 8.1 when it first appeared. One gets a list
of dependencies and suggestions for resolving them, such as what else
to install, or what to delete, and of course you can ignore it if a
package or library you need isn't available in the distro but needs to
be scooped up off the Net later. YaST will track RPM packages
installed subsequently, even ones not included in the distro, and
report dependencies on those as well, which is quite handy.

The Rest Here...http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30512.html

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