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Hi! (although the software management / update systems still do not work as well as they did for example in 9.3. - well, at least for me they do not work).
yes it does work , just dont use ZenWorks.
So far it seems that with SUSE you can do email, web browsing (with some problems) and basic things like that. Thanks to Guru and Packman, even media works somehow. And of course, developer things are there, but this is not your normal home things (rather your work). Basic office is there (although, the OO in 10.2 can not open word docs as well as the OO in 10.0 did...).
huh ? openoffice works just fine and packman packaes makes multimedia to work just fine.
SUSE Linux is the perfect choice for it - well unfortunately only from the technical point of view. It as everything that you need for a backup server or just a server: samba, software RAID, raid monitoring tools, smartmontools, LVM, web-services etc. But what it does NOT have is the UI for it all.
sigh, the distribution cannot have GUI for everything ( probablty no distribution has that)
- Samba and Linux passwd synchronization... How do you setup Samba in SUSE? Well, you open up YaST and start up Samba server. How do you give you children access there? Well from YaST you create new users. And then comes the catch - they can not access any smb-shares. And no, you can not fix it from the YaST - even though you could do everything else from there. You have to go down to command line. And then teach everybody that you have these 2 different passwords to use.
PEBCAK . all you telling us can be done with yast or with a simple tutorial, if you actually dont want to **get a clue ** about basic things of an OS, Im not sure if linux is the right choice for you.