[Lancaster] Download of latest version of SUSE Linux

[Ken Hough]

Overnight, I managed to download DVD image for latest version (released 
yesterday!) of 64bit SUSE v11.1. Did this via bittorrent, so hopefully helped 
the cause somewhat.

Have now installed same in place of SUSE v11.0 without problems and am running 
it right now to send this message. I keep a separate /home directory that I 
don't re-format, so I'm up and running much as before.

So far it looks good! A LOT better than the pre-release version that I tried! 
On the basis of previous recent experience with SUSE, I didn't really expect 
anything less than good.

The options for desktops are: Gnome, KDE4.1, and others. For conservative 
types like me, KDE3.5 is still offered under 'others'.

By accepting default settings, installation will give something like an Ubuntu 
system where things are made as simple as possible for newbies. eg user 
password is used for 'root' access and the default user is logged in 
automatically. Unlike Ubuntu, these default settings and also many others can 
be easily changed (by unticking boxes) to suit individual preferences. This 
format is much like that of v11.0, but has been tidied up.

I guess that this large number of options might be confusing for some newbies 
should they decide to explore them.

There is a slight change in the way the partitioner works/looks under the 
manual setting, but once figured out, this works well.

I'll post a review when I've had some time to explore.


Regards


Ken Hough