| Two first looks at SUSE 10.0 |
Oct. 18, 2005
The recent release of Novell SUSE Linux 10.0 has elicited strikingly different reactions from a pair of reviewers -- Alan Canton, president of a software consulting company, who is experiencing SUSE for the first time; and eWEEK.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, a seasoned SUSE user.
"Linux's main problem with laptops has been a lack of drivers," Vaughan-Nichols writes. "SUSE 10, on the other hand, does well both by my variety of USB drives that I use in lieu of floppy disks and CDs for transporting data from machine to machine, and by my Wi-Fi equipment. With SUSE 10, though, there was no trouble what-so-ever getting it to work. I installed it, I tried it, it worked. That's my kind of setup."
"All in all, I found that not only did SUSE 10 make WiFi as easy to use as it is on Windows XP, I found that it actually made using it both easier and better than XP does," Vaughan-Nichols adds.
Canton managed to install SUSE successfully, but had a number of complaints, including: "The system is lacking in video and PDF integration with Firefox. That's a nice way to say it just does not work. For me and others ... PDF files won't display in Firefox, nor will MPG video."
On the positive side, Canton notes, "This is the first effort in 'openness' from Novell, and it's a good one, all in all." He adds, "But this is a dot-zero release, and it looks and acts like one in many respects. I'm looking forward to the dot-one version, where I hope the 'fit and finish' is done to a higher standard."
Read our two "first look" reviews here:
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