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I installed SUSE on an IBM ThinkPad R50 and overall I'm pretty satisfied. It has excellent support for laptop functions like power management, Trackpoint mouse, and suspend-to-disk, all of which worked immediately without tweaking. Of course, GIMP and OpenOffice are great. The manuals (>900 pages) are pretty good as manuals go. I did have a few install glitches but they were resolved with a little effort. E-mail support was competent and knowledgeable with next-day response time. A few helpful hints: SUSE prefers GNOME but if you choose KDE, be sure to install kppp and use that, not kinternet for dialup. Also be sure to check that display resolution is recognized properly during installation and if not adjust it accordingly.
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I install it on my notebook Dell Inspiron 8200. Instalation was fine as usual. All hardware works at once except wireless card in WPA-PSK and 108 MB/s mode. To install native NVidia driver I have to read documentation, yast work is not enough. I was surprised when discover that double quote key doesn't work in US international keyboard layout in KDE. Also I cannot install/remove any software after initial instalation from Yast, it is not able to find DVD in my drive. Every application starts very very slow. Compare to my previous SuSE 8.2 I would not say this distributive is better but hardware support is good.
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Dell Latitude D400, SuSE 9.3, KDE 3.4, US International, double quote works :)
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I find this version to be user friendly
looks like good competition for windows
Suse 9.3 Linux was very easy to install didn't take long at all
was so nice to only have to put in one dvd to install all
the software bundled on the dvd is excellent
the packages are all current with lots of applications browsers, email clients etc to choose
and with wine can run alot of windows programs if need to
Novell also provides great tech support on the install if troubles
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Buyers who have a system with an Advansys SCSI card should know that SUSE dropped support for these cards beginning with version 9.1. (Some kernel hackers claim there are problems with the driver, though mine, which controls a Yamaha CD burner and an Epson scanner, has always worked fine.) This was a great surprise to me, since the Advansys cards had been supported on many distributions through many versions.
(The same thing happened with the Fedora spin off from the Red Hat distribution, but if I understood the discussion I found last night, the Advansys driver was restored, as of Core 3.)
Rating:  -
I install it on my notebook Dell Inspiron 8200. Instalation was fine as usual. All hardware works at once except wireless card in WPA-PSK and 108 MB/s mode. To install native NVidia driver I have to read documentation, yast work is not enough. I was surprised when discover that double quote key doesn't work in US international keyboard layout in KDE. Also I cannot install/remove any software after initial instalation from Yast, it is not able to find DVD in my drive. Every application starts very very slow. Compare to my previous SuSE 8.2 I would not say this distributive is better but hardware support is good.
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