Thanx for the report.
Always encouraging to hear positive feedback from
testers :-) .
As fast as Gentoo ?
I'm impressed.
Cheers.
--- Alistair Hamilton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, All
>
> I jumped into OpenSuse at 10B3. I have used SuSE
> and SUSE for many years, and
> had recently become a little dishartened.
>
> I run SuSE 8.something on a PIII 133MHz laptop that
> does printing, DNS and
> DHCP serving, and 9.3 on an AMD-64 workstation. I
> also have a Pentium-M Dell
> I8600 laptop and a P4 2GHz desktop.
>
> SUSE 9.3 installed on the Dell, but performance was
> truly abysmal. On this
> machine, 10B3 was a non-starter because the IPW2200
> wireless card was
> non-functional. OTOH, 10B4 installed and enabled
> everything (OK, I had to
> copy the IPW firmware manually from a shell
> terminal) and performance is
> excellent, as is battery life. It even suspends to
> disc without tweaking.
> It also resumes ;-)
>
> SUSE 9.3 failed to install on the P4 machine, which
> is a workstation that runs
> Linux and Windows XP as a client in VMWare. I
> messed with Fedora for a
> while, but it was not a good experience. It
> currently runs a mature Gentoo
> installation. However, I installed 10B3 on a second
> hard drive, and
> everything worked without problem, and the machine
> feels just as responsive
> as it does with Gentoo - with MUCH less hassle!
>
> I think that a lot of this is probably down to the
> use of gcc4, which, by many
> accounts, generates much better code than earlier
> versions. 9.3 stuck on
> 3.3.x, and from my Gentoo experience, I know for
> sure that software compiled
> with even 3.4.x subjectively feels much better than
> 3.3.
>
> The 64-bit machine is too important to mess with
> just yet, but I will
> certainly install an RC of B10 on one of its drives
> to test it out.
>
> In conclusion, I think that 10 is a great step
> forwaFrd. I felt that
> SuSE/SUSE were getting increasingly bogged down as
> the 9.x series
> "progressed". 10 seems to have completely turned
> this around. Another
> example of how opening software can produce great
> work.
>
> The only oddity to me is that as a workstation OS,
> it is not provided with a
> preemptable kernel. Again, from Gentoo, I know that
> this can make a
> subjective improvement in responsiveness.
>
> Well done all!
> Alistair
>
> PS. Incidentally, the oldest machine - the P3 -
> presently has an uptime of
> over 369 days. It does all DHCP and also does DNS
> caching for the LAN (using
> dnsmasq) Since my main workgroup laser printer is
> hung off its parallel
> port, it has handled many GB of PostScript in the
> last year, and has done so
> with intervention (by ssh - the keyboard and screen
> are inaccessible)
> probably about a dozen times. Its NIC is wireless,
> and there has never been
> a network reset. Not bad, SuSE!
>
>
>
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