10.1 is not THAT different in hardware support then 10.0 is. In fact 10.0 supports many hardware items that 10.1 does not.(mostly wifi cards)

Unless you have serious need for XGL then 10.0 will work fine for you. Better then 10.1 does IMO.

I have to agree. Seems Novell made the exact same mistake Mandrake and Red Hat did. Should have kept the retail boxes on the shelves at Best Buy. If I wanted to pull my own teeth out in support of the "free software" movement I'd install Debian anyway.

Novell didn't make the same mistake - they still retail SuSE - I have it sitting right here as a matter of fact. I have so far installed it on two workstations as a test and will be upgrading more as soon as I can schedule the downtime.

Where they DID screw up is with making the YaST package manager update sources at EACH runtime by default (can you say s-l-o-w?) and the smart package manager seems to be missing the YaST package manager's very best feature: a hierarchical package browser.

a LOT has improved: evolution (more specifically the Exchange connector) is no longer completely brain dead, and samba<->KDE integration Just Works(tm) without having to patch and hack the distribution by hand. Also, it deals with multiple ATI video cards in the same machine much better than 10.0 ever did. Aside from the above YOU and smart pain it seems to be much, much better than 10.0.

You bought/got Alpha SW, and you're complaining?! Pfft! That's rich....

I started with Linspire and hated it, so I tried SuSE 9.1, then 9.3; I now run 10.0 and 10.1. I have been disappointed in 10.1, but I did get xgl and compiz working for a while. The eye candy is nice, but it does get tiresome. I am counting on future releases being better and the Enterprise edition is excellent or so I have heard.

I can't help but tweak my systems all the time. That is what I enjoy the most.

I do have Kubuntu 6.06 on CD, lying on my desk. I am waiting until my granddaughter and I both have the time to install it together.

Good luck to everybody.

Hmm, since my last post in this thread Novell made me a liar, it seems they're killing off retail SuSE now.

Source? You can buy it online.

Hi KimVette!
I just checked and here in Sweden you can buy the reatil version of Suse 10.1. Both the "standard" and "Powerpack". I just wonder about the written documentation. I have bought Suse 9.2 Professional (retail) and Suse 10.0 (retail) both of them included a Startup Guide ~300 pages, but Suse 9.2 also included a 700 page Administrators Guide, a really good guide. What about Suse 10.1 (retail) did you get both of those guides or only the Startup Guide?

I have use SUSE for several years and have found it to be one of the user friendlt distros around. I currently use SUSE 10.1 and havnt had to many issues with other than issues with KDE or GNOME itself. Give to take, there are a few things that I have found to be buggy but it is not just SUSE per say but other distros as well including Fedora. I just think that in general linux has to create some sort of standard. Too many of these linux projects result in creating there own standard for there own project and then when get to know the product well they want to switch things around. That is the most frustrating thing that I have come across. I bought a SUSE 9 bible about a year ago and constantly use it as a reference and now 10 has been release and alot of things have change so basically now I dont even use the book as a guide. Sad but true.

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Well... this topic seems to be the answer to all my questions.

The fact that this page "http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_suse_10.1" exists, means that I am not the only one thinking of whether the Linux is going down. I have been a MS user since the 3.1 era and I have grew up with the WIN OS, however I got sick of it. After trying the Vista, I got really disgusted by the ever-growing-resource-consuming os ever created. I have tried a Mandrake 7.1 in the past and a Suse 10.0 release from opensuse.org. I have always wanted to migrate to linux, however I always got scared that I will miss the windows-like feel. Also I am used to many programs in WinOS so I need to learn the analogs in Linux. Nevermind the above, I am really conviced to move to Linux, as it is said to be more "light" than WinOS.

I have downloaded and istalled the 10.1 Suse release. Guess what - IT RUNS WORSE THAN THE DAMN WINDOWS!!! The 10.0 was better than the new release, so I am thinking to go back to 10. I chose suse as it seems more friendly to ex windows users, well I think the Novell are developing this thing to make windows' bugs-used users more comfortable.

The whole story gets really commercial. You know the money makes the world go around, right... well just visit the Novell site at http://www.novell.com/ and you'll see it right there. I think these guys are going the MS way...

So my question is - I need a user-friendly distro that will not need a lot of coding skills to make it work.I am running a 32bit AMD 2200+ with 512MB ram and a 128MB Video.

Is it the FEDORA or DEBIAN my choice. Please advise!

for a newbie i would heartily recommend FC5.

what you need to do is get a trial version of sled, and wait for suse 10.2 to come out. Sled fixed all the problems in suse 10.1, and suse 10.2 is going to have all the jazz that sled has, including gnome as a default.

I would have to suggest Ubuntu or Kubunt. I gave it a shot and really liked it and was able to get rid of windows completely and use linux as my only OS. Just today I got the compiz working on it and its pretty cool. Besides Ubuntu/Kubuntu come on a live cd so you can see what is working on your system before you install it. (a nice feature IMHO)I had once thought about installing SUSE but after reading this I'm glad I made the decision I did. GL to all

Hi there
Thanks for your response. I agree with you about Ubuntu or Kubuntu. I am now using Ubuntu Edgy EFT and it works very well indeed. However I am also using Novell SLED 10.0 and this works flawlessly as well. I am using the Evaluation version just to see what happens and I am surprised that this works while Suse 10.1 freezes. Also, this edition has a very polished feel to it and can very well be a full Windows replacement for those that are migrating. I am now dual booting between Novell SLED and Ubuntu Edgy EFT.

Suse is particularly good as a stable distribution while one experiments with other distributions since it gives you easy control over partitions and installing boot loader when one has more than one distribution on the same hard drive.
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