Curiosity about SUSE

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Wednesday 03 December 2003 12:17 pm, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>
> And the SuSE ftp sites are pretty good.
> Some people have been grumping about SuSE 9.0 being slow, etc. but that
> may be because they have everything but the kitchen sink in their box
> and one might benefit from being a little selective about what one
> loads up.

Historically, SuSE limited installation support to the "Default Desktop" 
installation option.  That is, if you chose other options, they didn't have 
to provide support.  This forced the user to choose between support and a 
lean machine.  I didn't notice whether this is still true with SUSE 9.0.

SUSE 9.0 (fyi - the "U" is officially uppercase now) has been enjoyable.  KDE 
seems to load a little faster than previous versions.  They added more cute 
games that are appropriate for little kids, including myself.  Midnight 
Commander is, finally, installed by default.  Also, you can install the 
proprietary nVidia driver via the online update quite easily; but do so 
separately, after you've updated kernel stuff.

One application that I'd like to see them add is msmtp.  It allows me to send 
mail via my Earthlink account regardless of whose service I'm using at the 
moment.  Kmail has this capability; but msmtp plugs into mutt, which is nice 
when I'm at the command line.

Andrew Gould