I love Suse, it never fails me.

I'm running SLED 10 with KDE --absolutely 100% Rock solid stable build.

The only 'Mods' I've made are

1) "Unhobble" the XINE / and libdvdcss so I can get Mplayer and Kaffeine to play DVD's. (This means adding Pacman to the install sources). Look at the sticky for adding full Multimedia to SLED 10. Playing DVD's in anycase seems to entail a bit of fiddling whatever distro you use.

2) I've also installed VMWARE

3) Upgraded FUSE to 2.6.3 so I can reliably use NTFS-3g for NTFS write to windows.

4) Installed Ndiswrapper (from the SLED 10 install DVD) so my Wireless pcmcia older type Linksys wpc54g card will work).


This distro is really the FIRST where everything works without fuss and even my Grandmother could use it. (At least Open Office).

SUSE 10.2 is also more or less OK but if you don't need 100% bleeding edge stuff and want a stable system without selling your soul to "The Redmond Devil" then SLED is absolutely IT.

I think (like most) that 10.1 was a bit of dog-poo but 10.2 has recovered the monentum and on corporate desktops there really isn't any competition any more to sled 10 --Redhat has gone all "Server" and Fedora Core whilst acceptable isn't IMO anything like as stable or convenient as SUSE. (YMMV however --like cars --BMW or AUDI you choose).

Incidenatlly DELL has announced it will deliver Desktops and laptops with Linux installed if the customer wants.

Not sure which distro however it shows Linux is definitely making inroads at last.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6506027.stm

Cheers

-K

Aren't you doing that anyway by buying a Novell product?

I didn't have to BUY the product. You can download it FREE.

Cheers

-K

Well you mentioned SLED so I thought you were getting a subscription. My bad.

You can get 30 or so days of "Official" updates free in anycase --no subscription required.

Otherwise since it's based on SUSE 10.1 (stable version) you can just add the OSS 10.1 repos to it and it updates fine.

My whole policy with Linux is not to update very often either.

"If it ain't broke don't fix it".

I only update if I need a new feature (such as more EXCEL compatability in Open Office), or if something really doesn't work or finally if I need to install some new software or a new hardware device that needs addiitional support.

Otherwise I just wait for "The next release".

(It's NOT Windows).

Cheers

-K