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Hello,
yes, I do recommend SuSE. For 64bit users we are early adopters. Yet, SuSE 9.0 runs stable for me and beside hardware difficulties I had no trouble. The kernel I compiled myself solved the last minor issues about the box not shutting down cleanly. I am very happy.
I too have been quite satisfied with 9.1 as a development platform. I had a spot of trouble with a SATA card, but that would have happened in 32 bit too. A couple of things in the applications area do show that we're dealing with a "raw port" of the 32 bit version. I have noticed that texmacs and OpenOffice have issues in this version. Texmacs is just not 64 bit clean at this stage and something of a fringe application so it's probably a bit harsh on the SuSE guys to expect them to fix it. On the other hand, you might have expected them at least to note that it segfaults immediately on start... The issues with OOo take a bit more testing to find, but I can generally crash it within 5 minutes of playing with the formula editor (and given all the other things I have thrown at that box, I think hardware failure is not the likely reason). Unlike texmacs, OOo is a central piece of software for those who want a 64bit desktop, so this could be said to deserve a more dedicated effort to get rid of such bugs.
I consider the support provided by Mr. Kleen and Mr. Jaeger in this forum to be very good.
Yup. I can't help getting the feeling that they are pretty much alone on the task, though. There's not a large "back room" full of people fixing bugs or pushing reports to upstreams maintainers. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907