[Sheflug] SuSe 9

[Alec Melling <melling [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

As promissed, after loading SuSe 9 on my laptop yesterday at the Lug meeting, 
here are my first impressions.

Installation completely non-problematic. It loaded onto the laptop without the 
need to do anything except fine-tune the graphics setup. Every additional 
piece of hardware - ISDN card; Network Card; Printer; Scanner - picked-up and 
configured without a problem.

Using Yast simple NFS network set-up as quick as I could type 192..... There 
is a host of new modules in Yast including Samba client and server (Don't 
have a windows machine to test with). This combined with the 'local network' 
(read Network Neighbourhood) setup should make dropping your laptop into any 
network a breeze.

KDE 3.1.4 no suprises. Open Office 1.1 with the OO quickstart is lighting fast 
and OO is well integrated into the file system. Suse button menu is a laid 
out with a bit more logic than in the past.

Online update is working already - 3 whole  updates including True Type Core 
Fonts await you.

The only problem encountered is the SuSe help centre which hang-fires when you 
click the Icon. The centre will load ten minutes later when you have forgoton 
what you wanted to know anyway.

There is an interesting gadget called Suse plugger which controls devices on 
the desktop. 

Using it on a Celron machine it is evolution not revolution. Should be 
interesting to see what you guy's with 64bit AMD's think of it... perhaps 
thats where the '8 to 9' jump lies. Vague impression that there has been a 
bit of a rush to get 9 out around the release of 64bit AMD. 9.1 might be the 
release with the polish..... 

What ever, all in all can't wait to get in on my desktop - Richard?.
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Alec Melling
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