Having received the SuSE 7.0 professional in the mail on Tuesday, I've so far installed it twice, on two different machines, using the two different install programs (yast2 and yast1). 1. Yast2 is still relatively useless for anyone who fiddles with the package-configuration. In particular, I miss yast1's ability to detect package conflicts, and I found no function to save and load an established configuration. The excellent hardware detection helps when I install on laptops (which happens once per month or so, on average), but I'm forced to first do a minimal installation and then use yast1 to postinstall packages. This means it's useless when I'm to upgrade my 30 desktop machines all in one go - I need to spend too much time in front of each machine. 2. Yast1 has had a serious bug introduced - it longer asks me for a superuser password, or allows me to create an example user. I need to boot it as a rescue system or in singleuser mode to set the root password to anything but a (non-published) default. Same conclusion as with yast2. The various package-related errors are less important, they're not on anything particulary necessary, fixes are already out, or I have fixes myself. But the lack of progress on installation software on a "Professional Edition" is disappointing. I dislike the fact that Tekram's driver for their 390U2W SCSI-card isn't included (it's been out for ages). Having to compile new kernels on a variety of different machines is a pain, but now it's got to be done. I'd hoped 7.0 would prevent the need. But there isn't even a precompiled kernel with both SMP and AMP support. I have to postpone my upgrade at least until I see fixes to yast1 (or yast2). I may skip the upgrade completely, and I may go look for a distribution with installation software that works. But I have no intention of doing an upgrade with what SuSE has given me now. Too much work, too much wasted time. I'll let you know. Bjørn -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Nothing gives such Sysadmin, Mathematics dept. Fax: (+47) 555-89672 weight and dignity University of Bergen Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 to a mail as a properly system@mi.uib.no Email: bjornts@mi.uib.no formatted .signature with a good quote. -- 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 FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq