LinuxWorld Australia: The Adventures of Installing SuSE Linux | Linux Today

LinuxWorld Australia: The Adventures of Installing SuSE Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 4, 2005

“I read a fascinating article in The Inquirer (not the one from
Florida, the one from the U.K.) last week. In it, IT gadfly Nick
Farrell documents his attempts to install SuSE Linux 9.3 on his
home computer.

“Farrell, with a bit of a light touch, determines that there’s
simply no way SuSE Linux 9.3 could ever be a home user’s operating
system. As he says: ‘SuSE has no useful help material, no wizards,
and it does some bizarre things that I have no idea how to fix. For
example, even when I shut the thing down, it insisted on rebooting
itself…'”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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