[KLUG Advocacy] SuSE 9.1 - the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Adam Tauno Williams
advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 11 May 2004 14:52:50 -0400
> 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 ...
Awesome!
> The bad: :-|
> It found my Centrino wireless card, configured it, but it doesn't work.
> I'm going to work on this more ...
Crappy proprietary hardware! :)
> 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. :-(
Ahh! That really really sucks. ACL support in Reiserfs is a disaster.
> However, the new kernel did NOT fix the Centrino wireless. :-(
Bummer for you.
Have you looked into the SLP packages that are supposed to come with
9.1?
Does it add in any Novellish stuff?
And work on if a decent version of GNOME will be available soon?