SuSE Linux Professional 9.3
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SUSE LINUX Professional includes a stable and reliable Linux operating system plus a complete set of desktop applications – office suite, Web browser, e-mail and instant messaging clients, multimedia viewers, photo organizers, and other popular open source applications. It also features the latest tools for setting up a secure home network, running a Web server, developing applications and more. SUSE LINUX 9.3 also provides a sneak peak into upcoming server-based Li… More >>
SuSE Linux Professional 9.3
If you want to go back about 10 years in computing this
will surely take you back in time.
First problem, drivers lack of them.
Second problem, if it don’t like your hardware you are
out of luck.
Third problem, my C: has now been destroyed.
I now have a machine with a blinking cursor.
Rating: 1 / 5
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.
Rating: 3 / 5
I attempted to replace Fedora 2 with Suse 9.3 on a dual-boot machine because some of the c libraries in Fedora were causing problems with compiles of scientific software. The Suse distro corrupted my MBR and I lost both Windows and Fedora. Repaired Windows. Backed up files. Re-installed Suse. Found it to be like what would happen if Windows XP and Fedora 2 lived on a nuclear waste dump and had a baby. Now I have installed ubuntu, and I find it to be much less crappy. Save your money. Install Debian or ubuntu. Suse is great for finding a worse way to do everything you can do in XP. Suse is the Fiat of the OS world – looks cute, but does it run…sometimes…when the weather is nice and you have nowhere to go but downhill.
Rating: 2 / 5
Suse/Novell would like for you to believe it works out of the box. It does not!
I have run many Linux distributions since 1995 and Suse/Novell is just another distro and still not quite ready for the desktop.
I currently run multi-boot systems which most distros handle very well. Not Suse! The install is only geared for existing windows or a blank hard drive. In order to load Suse, I had to unload three other systems (the Suse install actually removed them itself without letting me know).
After install I had to tweek the video and network card, and the sound system just barely works with only a few of the `installed’ packages. Fortunately I know how to adjust scripts to `make things work’ but sound is still an issue. Some things do work nicely but for the cost of Suse I suggest going with Fedora download and save your money, you will be much happier. While reloading Fedora and my favorite: slackware, Suse did not handle the partition re-size very well but the system recovery worked. I did have to re-tweek the Suse system again after recovery.
I had my hopes up for Suse/Novell because Novell had such a nice OS but I am still disappointed.
The books that are included with Suse are useless, even for a newbe. No much real useful information contained within the books and the books are not included in an electronic form.
Rating: 1 / 5
I can only recommend this product to those of you who have too few problems in your life and need more. I am not a “computer illiterate”. I have years of experience on Unix machines. I really wanted to get away from Windows. I bought the Suse Linux Professional 9.3 and tried to install it on a Gateway laptop. My sound card and dial-up modem would not work. When I tried to call Novell for my “90 days of free installation support”, I was told that the “free support does not include sound cards and modems”. I would have to pay $39 for 20 minutes of support. Furthermore, the support center was obviously not in the United States and I had difficulty communicating due to both our language differences and the quality of the connection. I spent over 15 hours trying to find a solution anywhere I could and never got the sound card or dial-up modem to work. I had to go to a Windows machine to get internet access as I killed my laptop internet access with the Linux installation.
Rating: 1 / 5