Suse 10 Review

[Paul King]

I wasn't so easily impressed. It is nice Linux is getting any attention at all in 
the major media. But of the "smorgasbord" of software he mentions -- no mention 
of OpenOffice? I have to react with amusement as to what they were trying to do.

I am surprised that he only went as low as a 466 MHz processor. I didn't think 
Suse would have set the hardware "bar" so high.

However, I attempted an install of a fairly recent distro (2.2 kernel, if I 
recall), which ended up running slow on a 486DX-33 (32 MB RAM) I had (and still 
have). And I don't just mean slower, but even the TTY console was intolerably 
slow. Has there been an actual abandonment of certain hardware it used to 
support, which they would now deem "legacy"?

Paul King

On 12 Dec 2005 at 21:19, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org (phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>) spaketh these wourdes:

> 
> There is a nice review of Suse 10 in today's Globe and Mail.
> 
> http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051209.gtsuse10dec10/BNStory/
> TechReviews/
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