Re: SuSE 10

pierre granier wrote:

> hello,
> Some body can say about "SuSE 10/Novel linux" not only sparc point of 
> view but PC too?
> Is change will be for NovelPro or SuSE10. A few lines will help to 
> have a good feeling about future
> Thanks
>
>
I am using SuSE 10 on a PC desktop and on an AMD64 powered laptop. The 
64-bit processor support is still something of a work in progress, and 
it took me some work to get all the features going. For most standard 
32-bit Intel systems however you will find the package to be easy to 
install,  configure, and use. Note that if you have some of the newest 
chip sets on the motherboard you may not be able to get sound, video, 
wireless, and Gigabit Ethernet functionality working until drivers 
become available.

If you are looking to do software or hardware development or any thing 
else that may lead to customization of the operating system you will 
find that SuSE has made this somewhat difficult as compared to many 
other distributions. This is a good thing if you want to run 
applications that are stable, well tested,  and already prepared to be 
easily integrated into the SuSE environment. If you wanted to learn 
about and tinker with the Linux internals, it can be a real pain.

The SuSE/Novell support is pretty good and is important if you are 
looking to migrate an office away from an expensive closed environment.  
The OpenOffice Suite for SuSE offers easy import and export to/from all 
the common or standard document formats you are likely to encounter.

I've not tried SuSE 10 on Sparc, but I have used SuSE 8 on Sparc. 
Generally the SuSE release will work identically on all supported 
platforms, although some of the hardware available is different and thus 
configuration procedures, while similar, may be different.

                      Grant Q