[ Thanks to Timothy R. Butler for this
link. ]
“As we lead up to the 2003 Open Choice Awards here at
Open for Business, we start afresh on our desktop
distribution survey. Over the next few weeks we will consider
Mandrake and Red Hat’s latest entries, as well as lesser-known
Libranet GNU/Linux. Today, however, we put the microscope on the
successor to the spring Penguin Shootout award’s winner–SuSE Linux
8.2.“SuSE 8.2 is very much an incremental release, as the version
number would seem to indicate (although we put very little weight
on version numbers when it comes to distributions). As one might
expect in such a case, much of what we said about SuSE Linux 8.1 is
still valid for 8.2.“Unfortunately, this includes not only the good but also the bad
points we found in 8.1. Our Logitech MX 700 mouse, connected
through the mouse’s included PS/2 adapter, failed to be detected
again. This left us with a frozen mouse pointer that forced us to
navigate through the first few screens and select the mouse
utility, to change the settings, using only the keyboard. The
‘overview screen’ that we have complained about has been somewhat
improved for those who keyboard their way around it, allowing us to
go directly through the options on the main part of the screen just
like one would on a web page. The mouse screen was slightly more
problematic, not responding to pressing the Alt key and the letter
underlined on the various buttons (normally an underlined letter on
a button indicates that Alt plus that key will have the same effect
as clicking on that button)…”