Suse back from the dead?

[mikkh]

Or OpenSuse as it's called nowadays.

A decade or so ago, when I first stumbled across Linux - Suse was one of the first ones I tried and it was streets ahead of anything else at the time. I was very happy with it.

Over the years it got steadily worse instead of better and then it was taken over by Novell and became mainly a commercial distro. It forked into the paid for version and a new free version called OpenSuse.

It was never quick to install and the live CD's were a bit of a joke in how long they took to load. It got so bad at one point, that i just stopped using it because I was sick of the the hour long install, the annoying package manager and how slow it was in running.

Having totally dismissed the last few releases, I thought it was about time I tried it again

To cut a long story short, it's back on my list of favourites with all the previous problems apparently solved

Welcome back Suse

It was the Gnome version I tried btw - stay away from the KDE version

[elvisuk]

Just downloading the Live CD version to see what it's all about never try it before

[elvisuk]

H! Mikkh,


Well i tried OpenSuse Live CD for about 40 minutes it seems OK but i think i will stick to mint much better i think ;D

[mikkh]

Suse is probably the second most used Linux in business - with Red Hat being the most popular. I know our local council use Suse for their emailing systems, or used to anyway.

It's probably not as user friendly as Mint, Mepis, PClinuxOS etc but it's worth a go if you want a stable proven version of Linux. I'm quite impressed with it, but then I am easily pleased.

I now have a bootloader on my main PC that reads

PClinuxOS
Mepis (default OS to boot)
Windows 7 (with Mint 9 installed 'wubi style)
OpenSuse
Fedora Community Remix

[elvisuk]

I seems an OK OS but not for me as for my boot loader it's Linux Mint 9X64, W7 32, Linux Mint 8X64 i have a 320GB H/D