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'
<disclaimer>I used to work for SuSE so I'm off-the-charts biased</disclaimer>
Kurt
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