On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 12:18, Per Jessen wrote:
I beg to differ. So far we use only SUSE Linux, and we've only hit one case where 10.1 did not provide the driver - Atheros wifi. We got it from madwifi instead. Our hardware is very varied - IBM Thinkpads, misc workstations, desktops, Compaq servers.
I concur. We have tested it on several platforms so far, and we haven't had problems which weren't easily fixed. All of those problems were with Wi-Fi drivers. ndsiswrapper or madwifi has fixed every single laptop. I have an Acer Ferrari 4006WLMi (the newest hardware in our entire division). Everything on it works---everything. The ndiswrapper solution fixed the Wi-Fi adapter (Broadcom chipset). The laptop is screaming fast. It boots faster than 10.0 did (by about 10 seconds---yes, we timed it before and after installing 10.1). I modified the KDE splash screen to use the Fingerprint screen. Under SuSE 10 I would see the numbers count as processes started. Under 10.1 I never see the numbers---it is that fast. Servers, desktops, workstations, laptops---Suse 10.1 has run on every platform we have tested so far, and the ONLY problems we have encountered have been with laptops, and ndiswrapper or madwifi fixed those issues. No graphics-card problems, no X problems, no SCSI problems. We are pleased. We will install it on all new harware which is purchased, and will gradually move some current hardware to 10.1. As I said in another thread, we test several distributions of Linux and several variations of BSD. We keep coming back to SuSE. It "just works" for us. If only SuSE still maintained a release for the Sparc, we could rip Slowaris 9 off of our Sun boxes....