On Wednesday 17 November 2004 09:20 am, Lynn David Newton wrote: > Can someone tell me exactly which SUSE ISO I need to > download to get the latest and greatest running on my > home Dell? (A 4.5-year old Dell with P3 @500MB, 512MB > RAM, 20GB hard drive.) > > I might be able to make the answer easier by saying > that I am at this moment downloading > > ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse/i386/9.1-personal-iso/SUSE-9.1-x86.iso > > I think that may be what I need, but I see a plethora > of other choices ... "9.2 Blah Blah" and "Professional > More Blah Blah". And I don't have time to get and load > the wrong thing. SuSE 9.1 Personal is definitely a nice distribution.. but IMO, the Personal versions are a pale shadow of the Professional. Offhand, I think they leave out all development tools and most server related ones. Since that's what I typically use Linux for (software development and web/mail/file serving), Personal just wouldn't cut it. I'd recommend buying 9.2 Professional from somewhere. After being bought out by Novell, I believe it became a lot easier to get cheaper versions of the distro then it used to be. > Are there any hard parts to the installation I need to > look out for? How about X configuration? (Shudder.) Nah.. SuSE has always had the (again, IMO) best X configuration of all the distros. SuSE is pretty slick so there typically aren't any 'gotchas' I used to work for SuSE so I'm off-the-charts biased Kurt --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss