OSNews: SuSE 9.0 and CrossOver Office 2.1.0 Make A Great Desktop

“After I and other colleagues had wasted much time trying to
configure and re-configure Windows, I finally decided that I would
try installing our new copy of SuSE 9.0 on this machine. We had
bought SuSE 9.0 for a new server installation. I had not originally
contemplated installing Linux on my colleague’s desktop workstation
because (1) he is a biologist who had never used (and possibly not
even heard of) Linux or any *nix-based operating system before, and
(2) he needed access to genetics programs like Sequencher (used for
sequence analysis) which were Windows-only and might not work under
Wine/CrossOver Office. But we agreed that having a computer that
worked–regardless of operating system–would be much better than
one that did not work! So the die was cast and I installed SuSE 9.0
alongside Windows 2000 in a dual-boot configuration.

“Now here’s the good part of the story: First, SuSE’s installer
autodetected all of the hardware perfectly. It automatically
configured the ethernet card in the PCI slot for DHCP and just
ignored the bad card on the motherboard…!”

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