The Joy of Suse

I’m not sure what it is exactly that’s making me write in praise of Suse in the middle of running Gentoo, but I think it’s worth doing. Suse 9.2 was the OS that I ran most recently and despite horrible support for the IPW2200BG it was a pretty good system.

Suse is an excellent entry-level distribution for linux beginners. It holds your hand through installation and configuration and, because Novel owns Suse, it has top of the line software. It integrates some things into Linux before anyone else does. For Suse 9.3 I’ll be excited to try out the Xen Hypervisor (a computer emulator) which they are packaging with the 9.3 release.

If you don’t have Suse 9.2 yet, you can find it here (it’s free):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.2/iso/SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso