[wellylug] Is SUSE a desktop distro? (AARRGGHH!)

[Wood Brent]

--- scanning at paradise.net.nz wrote:

> Howdy Brent,
> 
> I have to say that I am very surprised that SuSE failed to detect the onboard
> NIC. I have had a few other distros (Gentoo for one) automatically assign
> these to IEEE 1394 but never SuSE.
> 
> Perhaps it is a bug with the Personal version or it could be a bug with the
> el cheapo cover disk. All I can say is don't trust greying strangers who palm
> these things off on you late at night ;)

There is that :-) But I can't claim to have been overcharged.

The thing that frustrated me most was that as someone who uses & supports
Linux, and has done so for several years, the whole experience was like back in
the bad old days when unless you were a programmer/developer you had no chance
of getting a Linux install working. Like the old 1.x kernels

Back when I ran RH Linux under Vmware on NT cos I couldn't rely on Linux.... 

I have been telling people that Linux is ready for the desktop, then a premier
Linux desktop distro takes what IMHO is a few years backwards step.

It may just be the cover disk, but if so, Novell/SUSE should disassociate
themselves from it quickly.

OTOH, given a Slackware ISO on the same DVD, perhaps those unscrupulous
Slackware devotees sabotaged the competition :-)

I'd appreciate any help you can provide to get things working. I'll even pay
for the Pro edition if that works as it should!

Thanks,

   Brent