[NTLUG:Discuss] Fwd: [Bclug] SuSE 9.2 Pro

[Terry Henderson]

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From: Aaron Mulder <ammulder at alumni.princeton.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:28:18 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [Bclug] SuSE 9.2 Pro
To: bclug at adelie.net


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 martyskitch at comcast.net wrote:
> Aaron,
>      Is there much difference from 9.1?

        I have to say, SuSE 9.2 is everything I had hoped for.  Which was
primarily CPU power-saving support for my laptop and bluetooth mouse
support.  :)

        On the surface, it isn't that different from 9.1.  But here's my
list of noticeable improvements so far:

 * Updated KDE
 * GNOME looks really nice
 * Relatively modern Mozilla (TB/FB) and Subversion installations
 * Much more Java support -- I would guess 200 Java programs or libraries
   available -- Jakarta Commons, JBoss/Tomcat/Jonas, XML stuff, etc.
 * System profile chooser icon in the system tray, and unprivileged users
   can change profiles from the command line
 * Nvidia driver version now 6111
 * Bluetooth support! Specifically there's bluetooth mouse support, but
   also way more GUIs than before, file transfer to/from OS X and from
   Windows works well so far, plus my MX-900 works without the cradle
 * Can install Firefox and Thunderbird as 32-bit right from the installer
   on 64-bit platforms (maybe possible before and I just didn't know it?)
 * NTP client includes a pick list of regional servers and a test feature
 * GLMatrix screen saver renders smoothly on my laptop with software
   OpenGL. Slowly, but smoothly. Haven't tried binary ATI drivers yet.
 * Can save package list to hard drive or floppy disk! And load during
   install!!! This was probably in 9.1 but I didn't notice it.
 * Patches and updates from YOU now transfer smaller "deltas" and then
   build the new package locally and install it -- cuts down on network
   bandwidth / transfer time
 * CPU power saving works for Dothan laptops, though only under ACPI
 * ACPI suspend to disk works fine for me.  I had to use a boot param
   to get suspend to RAM working, and that tells it to use a BIOS call
 * Some bugs fixed from 9.1 (64-bit Audigy support, canceling SSH login)
 * Some new bugs (First login as root hung in KDE; GNOME worked fine and
   login as normal users worked fine and root login after reboot worked
   fine.  On 64-bit machine had to tweak memory settings in BIOS to avoid
   kernel panic on boot.  Thunderbird doesn't build on 64-bit machine
   with same source and procedure that worked on 9.1)

Aaron
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