Re: IMHO, 9.0 kicks ass

From: Matt Gibson (gothick_at_gothick.org.uk)
Date: 11/09/03 

Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 15:17:01 +0000

mjt wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 00:56:11 GMT, ToolPackinMama <laura@lauragoodwin.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I just shelled out for the retail pack of 9.0 and I love it. Easiest
>> install ever, and it recognized all of my devices and had drivers for
>> me, even for my USB scanner. I'm impressed!
>
> ... agreed

<AOL>Me too!</AOL>

I got SuSE 9 up and running this week, installed and configured in a few
hours total. This is the first time I've had a SuSE install work perfectly
first time, but then I didn't come from 8, I came from 7.2.

This is also the first time I've got the built-in scanner on my LaserJet
working under Linux, although that wasn't an automatic configuration (but
Yast did say to me, basically "oh, I can't do that, but here's what you do
with the configuration files...") And the first time X has actually been
configured properly for me; 7.2 always died in the middle of the X
configuration, and it was always tricky configuring it with no working
mouse anyway...

I can't think of anything that didn't work straight out of the box, in fact.
I'm very impressed indeed.

The only hiccup I had was when I installed Amavis to see what it was like,
but didn't realise that I also had to install at least one separate virus
scanner for it to use. Oops. Almost certainly my fault; I ploughed ahead
with everything in a very cavalier not-reading-any-instructions style ;-)

If I could change anything, I'd have stopped them putting the screenshot of
the "frozen-bubble" game on the back of the box. I'd never have realised
it was on the CDs if they hadn't done that, and I was up _way_ too late
last night playing it.

M 

-- 
"It's the small gaps between the rain that count,
 and learning how to live amongst them."
              -- Jeff Noon

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