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Probably because it's not ready for the consumer market. Corporate desktops, yes, but home users with scanners, digital cameras, and other assorted bit and pieces without specific Linux drivers in the box, no.
For the most part I must agree with you. When I started using SuSE back in 7.1 it had somethings that were nice compared to the present versions, but obviously lacked in other areas that have been the focus of the newer/newest versions. One of the things that personally bothered me with no more yast1 since 8.0. I used to like it because you could point it at "any" directory that had rpms in it and you could use it as a general purpose installer/updater. This was especially nice if your video card driver had a problem, as well as gui updates done in init 3. I know that the latest kernel has many more drivers, so USB and other similar things are coming along. I have also had better luck with 3rd party party programs since 8.1 (and 8.2, despite gcc 3.3, 8.2 has been working well). Also, the latest version of Wine (coming with 8.2) actually is much better. I ran some games in it that did very well, games that had definite problems before now run pretty smoothly. There was a change to the way the new kernel handled things with Wine that was discussed both by the SuSE devs, Wine devs, and some other hackers. It had to do with __errno and __errno.h and the way Wine works with this. I have yet to notice anything problematic however. Perhaps it's just me, but I kinda get the feeling that SuSE will be focusing on something of a merge of sorts with the general versions and the Office Edition verson they sell for corporate office use. In the Office Edition they include the CodeWeaver's plugins - so they have licensed it. But I don't think this is going to happen with the Personal/Pro editions because of cost/support/license issues. But, this may change. I know that many home/SOHO users want to run Win apps. In the Office Edition you can do this a lot better out of the box. The CodeWeavers stuff has a gui installer/admin interface that comes with the Office Edition. The other issue is a more unified installer, something along the lines that comes with Windows (it's a 3rd party app - but pretty much everyone uses it, you know - InstallShield). Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+dfrZ7WVLiDrqeksRAvJdAKDa4tjZLoAmRNEfCFx31dzZXtT8QgCeK3Eg xgWV3i/TRx8Y+19eWfw7ftc= =KJf5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----