SuSE 8.2 approaches computing Nirvana

dahamsta

I seem to hear nothing but good about SuSe these days.

adam

SuSE 8.2 approaches computing Nirvana
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 01/05/2003 at 13:55 GMT

Review There's a lot to like in SuSE's latest edition, 8.2, and little to complain about. There are security enhancements and graphics tweaks partly due to KDE 3.1, and major administration bonuses in YaST-2. It's clear that SuSE has worked hard to accommodate the corporate desktop market as well as the home user since edition 8.1, which we did not recommend. It appears the company is serious about tempting a mixed-species shop of Linux servers and Windows desktops to harmonize in favor of Linux and thus save considerably on administration costs. Microsoft should worry about the strides SuSE is making in this area.

Installation was an absolute breeze and hardly worth mentioning. I loaded it on three machines, a home-built P4 system, an OEM Dell P3 box and a Presario Celeron laptop. There were no unpleasant surprises; hardware detection was flawless and nearly everything I installed worked. YaST has an automatic dependency checker which seems to have been tweaked a bit since 8.1 when it first appeared. One gets a list of dependencies and suggestions for resolving them, such as what else to install, or what to delete, and of course you can ignore it if a package or library you need isn't available in the distro but needs to be scooped up off the Net later. YaST will track RPM packages installed subsequently, even ones not included in the distro, and report dependencies on those as well, which is quite handy.

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hamster

Hmmm.... SUSE certainly seems to come along way since I last tried (around 6.1). Is it available for download? Messing around with Redhat 9 at the moment and very happy with that too.

dahamsta

Originally posted by hamster
Is it available for download?

No, they only release ISO's of the last available version, and I don't think you can do FTP installs for a few weeks after release. It's about half the price of Red Hat though, so I'm going to have a go off it. Got orders for SuSe and OpenBSD in the the moment, new toys soon!

adam

Rew

Been using SuSE for desktops and servers since 6.3 and its really come on. 8.2 is dam nice. So many cool/handy bits

Been running OpenBSD since 2.7 for servers and nat/firewall boxes. Its not for the *nix virgin but is very nice, 90 megs of tar balls for a compleate install. Very secure and the ports are 90% of what u will want to install in one place.

Something

how up-to-date are the versions in the openBSD ports?

Rew

They tend to be a version behind the most recent one in most cases. Depends on who is maintaining the particular port. I installed a machine recently so havent looked at the most recent ports collection.

The bigest drwaback of OBSD is lack of a JVM, you have to run a fairly old version of JDK to get anything to run

Gerry

Maybe you could try locking down freebsd.. theres ports of jdk 1.4, or you could run java for linux through linux emulation.

scojones

Been using suse since 6.2. I haven't seen 8.x though, i'm stuck at 7.3 for the moment :rolleyes:

Rew

PM me in 2 weeks when iv finished my exams and ill organise a copy of 8.2 for ya if ya want

spartic

Just finished full years college project done on SuSE 8.0, it has changed my distro idea's completely i personal believe it is good damn sweet seems as if it has taken the best from all the rest. Luved the title of the topic "SuSE8.2 approaches computing Nirvana"

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