Hi there guys,

Soon im due to update to 9.3, i have heard numerous people say that 9.3 will run faster than 9.2, how true is this?

What improvents will i see, is it really worth me splashing out a fair bit of cash for 9.3? Will i notice huge differences over 9.2? If its more hassel then its worth then i wont upgrade.

Cheers in advance

P.s. When you guys think SuSE 10.0 will be out?

9.3 is available via bit torrent, 5 CD's 3.33GB file. You can try it out before you buy it. I notice it is a little faster and a little more stable.

i've used suse since 9.0 and their trend since then has been a new professional release about every 6 months. i've read unconfirmed reports that they might expand the release cycle to one year.

i've also seen chatter on one of the suse mailling lists that suse might do with suse professional what redhat did with fedora and make it more of a true community distro. this is absolutely unconfirmed and is little more than me repeating what someone said they heard someone say so take it as such. if anyone knows of anything more official i'd love to hear about it, thanks.

cheers guys, im dling suse 9.3 right now so i can eval it

I upgraded from 9.2 to 9.3 yesterday and it went without a hitch. All my applications still work, and Gnome 2.10 seems to be a lot more stable. I noticed a real speed improvement both in starting my system and launching programs from the desktop. It also looks smoother.

Worth the time I spent upgrading my system.

SuSE has an excellent product but a bad marketing!

let me explain that :

1. their linux boxed product is too expensive, 90EUR and with 2 releases / year makes it more expensive than WinXP Home

2. Novell must occupy the companie's market and let SuSE be an "independent" product and more opened and community oriented

3. Mandrake is an excellent exemple, SuSE must do the same :
- open a club where for 40EUR / year you'll get some support and download the SuSE linux versions;
- give the possibility to buy only the CD set, only the DVD version, only the manuals, combine them and finally the full and complete pack - as is sold today; but separately is much more cheapper and more interesting (downloaded version must be much cheapper than its CD or DVD single version)

4. translate it in more languages, translate the sites too and forums if needed;

5. releasing all the time a free version, light or stripped down (the way Xandros does with its Open Circulation Edition) disponible on ftp and p2p

6. listen more often people's voices and try to be a cutting edge linux distro!

7. offer much more GAMMING & MULTIMEDIA support!

8. adopt a real package manager like APT4RPM, this will make our lives easier;

... as about the speed ... stability matters first! I don't wnat a fasssst OS that freezes in few seconds

I upgraded to 9.3 from 9.2, I see a real boost in speed. I always felt the one downside to suse was it was a bit sluggish on my system, suse 9.3 is much more responsive. The only program that is slow to open is openoffice 2.0, but I expect that of open office, it's slow on any os.

9.3 is definitely faster than 9.2...very polished...best SuSE in the 9.x line.

Note: Suse does not make its installation ISO's available for downloading (although it does offer its Live Eval ISO's for free). Please see the Novell site for more information. If you want an official copy of Suse, you can either buy the boxed set or perform an FTP installation (which is free).

If you have downloaded "Suse 9.3 ISO's" then a.) they are not official and b.) there really is no telling exactly what you actually downloaded. Personally I would not recommend that anyone use a distro of unknown origin as it very easily could be corrupted with malicious software. -- J.W.

I couldn't agree more with points 1 and 3 "give the possibility to buy only the CD set, only the DVD version, only the manuals, combine them and finally the full and complete pack - as is sold today..."
I had only two possibilities: buy the full edition for about 93EUR or order the Update Edition from Amazon.co.uk. I ended up by spending 41EUR to buy from a private the original DVDs only. This money could be in Novell's pocket now.
Point 5: Novell has been doing this: 9.1 was the Personal Edition, 9.2 was the FTP-DVD iso.
Point 6: they are actually *too* cutting edge, and it takes about 2 months every time before you can use a reasonably bugfree release. This time they have really gone over the top: beta quality KDE, alpha quality features like beagle, suspend to disk, Xen...
Point 7: gaming is not bad at all, multimedia support out of the box is very poor, but it is easy to improve it a lot with APT.
Point 8 is really my favorite: I have had to fight against ignorance, stupidity, prejudice, bigotism to show that APT is a great tool and that it can work side by side with YaST (some people are so much against APT because they are too bloody stupid to learn how to use it)

I want to add: put a bittorrent client like BitTornado in the media: these days it is used a lot to download free linux distros, not only warez (Linspire understod this a long while ago)

VERY IMPORTANT: I WANT NOVELL TO GO BACK TO SINGLE LAYER DVDs, AT LEAST UNTIL ALMOST EVERYBODY HAS THE MEANS OF MAKING A BACKUP COPY OF DUAL LAYER DVDs. DVDs DO GET SCRATCHED, AND THE RIGHT TO GIVE COPIES FOR NO GAIN TO RELATIVES AND FRIENDS IS AN EMPTY ONE IF PEOPLE CAN'T TECHNICALLY MAKE COPIES.

I apologize for using capital letters. It is by no means meant as shouting, but as strongly stressing something that personally I find very important.