[KLUG Advocacy] SuSE 9.1 - the good, the bad, and the ugly.

[Bruce Smith]

I just received my copy of SuSE 9.1 professional and did a fresh install
on my laptop.  First impressions:  It looks a lot like 9.0 only cleaner.

The good:   :-)

It found my laptop's winmodem, configured it, and it actually works!
I could never get it to work under SuSE 9.0.  Believe me, I tried ...

The bad:   :-|

It found my Centrino wireless card, configured it, but it doesn't work.
I'm going to work on this more ...

The ugly:   :-(

XFS is completely broken in the stock kernel.  Trying to install to a
XFS partition causes a kernel oops.  I installed to Reiserfs instead. 
Then I booted 9.1 and tried to mount a different/old/existing XFS
partition, which caused a kernel oops.

I ran the online update, which installed a new kernel, and all is now
fixed in XFS land.  :-)   
As long as you don't need XFS during the install.  :-(

However, the new kernel did NOT fix the Centrino wireless.  :-(

 - BS