[Lancaster] First impressions of SuSE v10.1

[Martyn Welch]

Hi Ken,

You wouldn't be interest in bringing you laptop to the next meeting and doing 
a quick guided tour around the highlights (and if you can bear it, any low 
lights) of Suse 10.1 would you? ;-)

Martyn

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 10:07, Ken Hough wrote:
> I've just updated from SuSE v9.1 to v10.1. This occupies 5 CDs plus an
> addon CD. First impressions are very favourable indeed. As usual with
> SuSE, installation was a doddle.
>
> Why did I take so long to move from v9.1? Because that worked so well.
>
> Am I glad that I updated? YES! There are lots of improvements and
> additions. Those which I've been particularly struck by so far are:
>
> KDE v3.5.1  --- seems to start up quicker than earlier versions.
>
> KStars v1.2.0 (part of Kdeedu package) --- with the addition of a newly
> developed INDI driver for EQ6 (not supplied by SuSE), I have remotely
> controled my astronomical telescope/mount while looking at a planetarium
> view of the sky. Fantastic!
>
> Gimp v2.2.10 --- more polished than earlier versions. Also included by
> default are 'dcraw' and 'ufraw' to handle RAW files from digital
> cameras. 'ufraw' provides a very good UI. This addition alone would have
> been enough for me to move to SuSE v10.1.
>
> And there's lot's more still to explore.
>
> I did have a look at Fedora Core 5, but still (perhaps not too
> surprisingly) prefer Suse v10.1. The only reservation that I have with
> modern SuSE is that it does really need a sensibly fast PC. It runs well
> enough on my 800MHz laptop with 384MB of RAM and of course very well on
> an Athlon 2200 box. The limiting factor is YAST.
>
> YAST is IMHO the best and most complete installation and managment tool
> available and makes for an easy life, but does need a bit of horsepower
> to run at practical speeds.
>
> This message is not intended to restart a distro war, just to serve as
> an initial review.
>
> Ken Hough
>
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