Saturday, July 3rd, 2004
Whoa my first review.. I’ve been meaning to do one of these for some time but never really had time for it. The new Suse 9.1 Personal edition has been out for a couple of weeks and it makes a good test subject. The distro is, of course, free of charge, you can get the iso here. I chose Suse because it always seemed like a distro with a lot of promise. I tried v8.2 a few months ago and I was a bit disappointed with some things even though I was generally pleased with it.
The installation is a no brainer, it’s Yast all the way and it looks better than it used to. It will, of course, auto detect most of your hardware, it missed my Intel Centrino 2100 wlan card but that’s known to be a tricky one. The software selection dialog was a bit poor, I couldn’t find gnome in there anywhere for one thing. But all in all it was a successful process and Suse was installed while I watched an episode of “Scrubs” (what else? 
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