 It just works, 2003-06-11
If your hardware is remotely Linux friendly (check their hardware database), this will almost leap out of the box and install itself, pausing only to fix dinner and do your ironing. Ready to get online or process words in under an hour in my case.
5 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
SuSE 8.2 - Review of wireless on laptop, 2003-05-31
Greetings All,
If you are reading this, then you know what is up.
My laptop, a PC Club OEM system about 18 months old, runs SuSE 8.2 like a dream. I dual-boot it with WinXP, for I am a geek.I have an Orinoco wireless nic, and setting it up and surfing was a snap (especially not needing to edit a half-dozen files).
The only trick was setting my default gateway in the Yast2/routing configurator. I have been playing with SuSE since 6.1, and Linux in general since RedHat 5.1, and I am stoked that things are moving forward quickly and efficiently.
Read the other reviews for hardware/software critiques.
I do networking and SysAdmin work for a living, and love to get that tcpdump-ing & ethereal going... Kudos to SuSE and their find manuals.
-Lance 20030530
1 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Linux Is Ready for Desktop, 2003-05-27
SuSE linux Does a geat job bringing Linux to the desktop. Linux is a much better Operating System for the desktop. I have installed it on my laptop along with Windows XP. I have been using it for a year now (SuSE 8.0) and recently upgraded to 8.2.
It does work much better than my MS windows. I rarely Use windows now. I highly recommand it.
5 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
runs great-novice here, 2003-05-20
I have been using MS windows forever. I decided to gradually switch to Linux and I found suse 8.2 pro install on my dell laptop a breeze. And I have not had any problems with anything. All hardware from networking to digital camera to printer to scanner work beautifully.
19 of 41 customers found the following review helpful:
 Best graphics; worst performance of any distro..., 2003-05-09
Where do I start? I have 11 computers in my home and a variety of hardware. Suse's past releases--8.0, 8.1, 8.2, failed to work properly on any of my machines. There was always something buggy.The latest debacle was installing Suse Profesional 8.2 on a HP Pavilion with the sis650 chipset. "Oh, glory!" I thought. A distro that finally supports this chipset. But the network card (which is listed as supported) was detected but didn't work with the driver. I tried others to no avail. So, I had a system that looked good, void of networking capability with faulty sound, to boot. So, what to do? I email Suse and guess what? Networking is not supported with the basic support plan. Oh, great! So, I call Suse in California and ended up speaking to someone in merry ol' England who wasn't much help either. Suse's version of Linux never ran right on my laptop, either. Mandrake, Red Hat and Libranet Linux all ran on my machines in a very stable manner and supported most of the onboard cards. You would think that Suse would do the same but never have I had any success. The only thing Suse has going for it, in this writer's opinion, is the slickest graphics of any Linux desktop offering. But I'll take stability and a working system over a pretty paperweight any day. One Caveat: your mileage may vary depending on your hardware. And I guess all of the reviews are based upon the individual experience of the users. But, when other distros work and Suse does not, then it has to be something with Suse--not the hardware.
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