Hello All,
Suse 10 from LFY was tried out. Overall, it is a little disappointing considering that SuSe is generally recommended for desktop usage. This was my first trial of the SuSe distro for a desktop.
During installation, its manual partition utility could not detect free unpartitioned space in my hdd and I had to reboot into FC4, my current OS to create a new partition in the free space using fdisk. Then this partition was selected in the SuSe installer.
Device detection was good with sound and graphics working fine. However it could not mount CDs in my DVD ROM as well as CD R/W so media players could not be tested. A very big problem.
Another important facility that is lacking is a proper gui dialup tool like kppp in kde or anything else in gnome. There was a novell dialup tool found after a lot of hunting in the packages selection list but that does not work even in root login.
Otherwise, for ethernet usage this distro appears to have a lot of stuff packed in and its packages selection list in the dvd looks pretty impressive.
FC4 may not be very impressive but at lest it gets its basic stuff working pretty well.
Regards,
Rony.
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