the actual supported hardware is determined by the kernel,and external modules and should be mostly the same from distro to disto. suse's hardware detection is so good their hardware database seems to have been neglected, very few need it any longer.

I really liked the SuSe 9.1 Live Eval, it found all my hardware without a hitch. When I tryed to do a FTP install it wouldn't find my hardware and I wasn't very impressed.

My experiences with the Eval Disk were all good and from what I saw I was very pleased with the polished interface. The GUI Windoze like Control Panel 'YaST' was the best I've seen in any Linux Distro.

I have seen nothing but praise for YaST, but it is unstable as hell on my system (only the package manager). I feel like I am the only SuSE user alive who installs RPM's with the command line. Sometimes YaST just closes half way through the install, sometimes it is open for about a quarter of a second. When I was using 32-bit SuSE 9.0, there were no problems at all. I reformated with 64-bit SuSE 9.1, and I don't think that the app has been consistently stable since. The operating system itself seems very stable, three crashes in nearly two months (none since I quit using mplayer in KDE). I was just wondering if anyone else has this problem....

Apologies, but here is the relevant hardware for the previous post:

Athlon 64 3200+
512 MB PC 3200
GeForce FX 5700