[ale] SuSE 81 review, kinda...

[Geoffrey]

Keith Hopkins wrote:
> Speaking of our girl SuSE, has anyone tried SLES7 or 8?  I'm looking at 
> upgrading my primary server (file/print/dns secondary) from SuSE Pro 7.3 
> to either SuSE Pro 8.1 or SLES8, but I've had no prior experience with 
> SLES (Can you even upgrade a Pro 8.1 to SLES?)

What is SLES???

> 
> On the bright side, I've done three Pro 8.1 new installs.  The installer 
> has gotten better, but still tends to trash itself on complex disk 
> management.  (putting lvextends before the lvcreates and can't create 
> new lv, both a symptom of not recognizing you wiped the partition table 
> and started over).  The new installs are a GBTon faster then 7.3, I'd 
> guess since all the rpms are compiled 586 (instead of 386), and the 
> kernel optimized for my CPU (Athlon).  One low end install went to a HP 
> Vectra PPro200Mhz w/96M.  Gnome actually comes up and the box is 
> functional.

I just finished an install of SuSE 8.1 personal on a Pentium 166/ 64mb. 
  I win. :)

> 
> Now, on to finish my latest distro install....PC-DOS (ick!)

Okay, some variation of MS-DOS?  I've got a couple of copies of DR-DOS 
still hanging around. ;)


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Think about it...

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