OSNews: SuSE Linux 9.0 Professional Review

“SuSE uses their own YaST2 configuration system for
installation. YaST2 begins by automatically configuring a few
settings before the main installation. This includes partitioning,
the boot manager, and a default desktop system that the user does
not even have to touch. It automatically set up the mount points
for my Windows system and partitioned everything without me
touching it; simply amazing. Sadly, SuSE did not detect my Intel
i810 graphics card or just did not define the right color sets so I
was forced to install in an ugly 16-bit color mode and had to move
windows up occasionally. The default system included KDE and a wide
variety of applications. I chose to install everything… or at
least I thought I did. For those who want to decide on their own
what to install, the categories are set up very nicely.

“After setting up the prerequisites, the actual package
installation began. I think I like SuSE’s information display
better then Red Hat’s as YaST2 puts an estimated time remaining for
each disk and shows progress on each CD, allowing you to go and do
something else and come back after that amount of time has
passed…”

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