On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 14:41, L. Mark Stone wrote:
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 02:19 pm, Brad Shelton wrote: | I tried... but I can't stand the heat. | | I am reformatting the 9.1 system and putting 9.0 on it instead. 9.1 | is just too much for me at the moment.
Brad,
Don't feel bad; I went back to 8.2 (with KDE 3.2.2) because 9.0 didn't support my Adaptec/DPT SCSI RAID controller properly. The driver for the RAID controller (dpt_i2o.o) wasn't even included in the 9.1 evaluation CD, so I have no idea if the regression(s) introduced in 9.0 were fixed in 9.1 or not.
To me it seems that 9.1 has a few more serious issues than the SuSE 8.x releases; at least based on my memory and the number of posts here on this list.
When it was first released, I happily bought the full boxed version of 9.0 Pro (it's now shelfware), but I think I'll wait for 9.2 before buying another retail box.
As for our clients, one is about to start a SLOX implementation, and for another where we are rebuilding an NT4 domain and hp servers with Samba, we will likely use 8.2 Professional instead of 9.x as the base OS.
That makes sense. I have recommended 8.2 to my customers as well, as that is the version I use for my office sytems. It is the most stable SuSE version I can recall. I got frustrated with 9.1 trying to get cups and samba working. THen it started installing 733MB of BS dependancies... that's when I said, "That's it! Off it goes!! Where's my 9.0 CD for network install...". The network install at least works with 9.0. It didn't for me with 9.1. -- Brad Shelton On Line Exchange http://www.ole.net Phone: 313-526-1111 Fax: 313-526-3333