Suse 10 Oss

[fingal]

Yep, it's good. Very good in fact. Just a couple of things which might be of interest. Here in the UK a major high street newspaper and stationary outlet is WH Smiths.

Smiths are now selling packaged up Linux magazines, "Exclusive to WH Smiths". The idea is that you get a magazine, a distro and a guide book which is, "Everything you need to install this FREE operating system." You can do whatever you like with the glittery packaging ... give it to your cat to play with. The key distros on offer are SuSe and Mandriva.

This is a fairly new development. A year ago, you could buy the magazines and free distros, but now there seems to be a marketing campaign going on. The "added value" brigade have moved in. Also, major book shops are stocking FOSS type books a-go-go. Want to learn Emacs? There's a book. Want to use Samba: there's a book. Want to ... Well, you get the idea.

So things have got interesting here in the UK. The other day our IT guy started asking me questions about open source. He says he's not that interested, so why is he asking? He's a Mac user. One of my managers says he's switching on to SuSe. What's going on? Our profile is higher, but still not mainstream. We have arrived. Not with a bang, but we have arrived.

[techieMoe]

I'm a big fan of SuSE in general, but I still prefer 9.3 to 10, for the little things that "just worked" and don't anymore for me. I'm eagerly awaiting 10.1 to see if Novell has worked all the little kinks out (they've historically been good at this, 9.3 was the most stable of the 9.x series). Namely, if 10.1 will properly detect and mount my USB flash drive, camera and scanner I'll buy the retail version just to say thanks.

[chopin1810]

I'm a big fan of SuSE in general, but I still prefer 9.3 to 10, for the little things that "just worked" and don't anymore for me. I'm eagerly awaiting 10.1 to see if Novell has worked all the little kinks out (they've historically been good at this, 9.3 was the most stable of the 9.x series). Namely, if 10.1 will properly detect and mount my USB flash drive, camera and scanner I'll buy the retail version just to say thanks.

I thought it did detect all those. Or are you talking about the unmounting-your-USB-flash-drive-as-a-normal-user problem?

are you guys talking about suse 10 oss or the store-bought suse 10?

Both. For most users they are practically the same.

Once I learn a lot more about Linux, I think I might switch to Slackware, but I'm not quite ready to do that yet. SUSE suites my needs just fine for right now.

I usually like to have a distro like Slackware installed along with something like SUSE so I can learn and yet do the things I enjoy as well.

[dwm]

doesnt matter if its store bought or not its pretty much all the same. The EVal,OSS and retail all perform great!

[techieMoe]

I thought it did detect all those. Or are you talking about the unmounting-your-USB-flash-drive-as-a-normal-user problem?

It detected the camera, not the scanner. It also detected and mounted the USB flash drive, but wouldn't allow me to unmount it as a regular user. It's a little thing, but it's something other distros (including SuSE 9.3) could do. I hope this is ironed out for 10.1.

The issue with my scanner was fixed in the newest version of the SANE libraries. I'm just waiting for a distribution to include it.

[GNOME_n00b]

Smiths are now selling packaged up Linux magazines, "Exclusive to WH Smiths".

not any more. its mandriva 2006 now. they started off selling mandriva 2005 LE, then fedora core 4, then suse 10, now back to mandriva.

[Apollo]

well. SUSE was my first linux experience, and I am still running it as the primary OS on one of my boxes. After a little trouble getting my flatscreen to work, everything has gone smooth. anyone with even 1 days worth of linux using knowledge could have figured out my flatscreen problem, but I was a total noob, so it gave me trouble for a little while. other than that, suse has been great to me, providing me with an easy transition from windows to linux, as I am now running only linux on my boxes. for a first time linux user, i'd say suse would be a good choice because its very easy to use and i've had no major problems with it to date. KDE certainly provides an easy transition from XP to SUSE10.0, and I think SUSE did a very good job of personalizing kde to their distro.