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SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional review

Tuesday 18 May 2004, 8:11 PM

Too complicated for custom installs

Fine if you want to do an "out of the box" install where you choose one of the designated sets. If you want to do a custom install forget it. The last decent SuSE release in this respect was 7.3. As for low spec machines, don't even think about it. I tried releases 7.3 up on a ThinkPad and it "barfed" each time. It's a pity as YAST is a great tool which works from the command line. Great if you want to use SuSE on a server (who needs a GUI gobbling up processor power on what is in most cases a headless box).

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SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional

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Editors rating: 8.0

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If you’re looking for relatively straightforward Linux-based office productivity, you should have few problems with this distribution.

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