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As a personal edition I didn't check too far into the console -- AristotlePagaltzis suggests that it's crippled without a [Compiler], but I was trying to use locate(1) and it didn't even have that! Surely it could have done away with something like the LIRC server in favour of a bit more power in the [CLI].
!! Hardware support
-YaST has some nice ideas -- it has a "Load Vendor Driver CD" option for example, which would be great if vendors shipped driver CDs, but after the initial detection of the MoDem, I was let down by it saying that it needed the <tt>ltmodem</tt> package which wasn't on the CD. [Suse] 9.1 Personal comes with [Sun]
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[Java], AcrobatReader and RealPlayer, so they're obviously happy with licensing software. The lack of internet connectivity meant that, without a network card in the laptop, I couldn't go any further with internet access.
+YaST has some nice ideas -- it has a "Load Vendor Driver CD" option for example, which would be great if vendors shipped driver CDs, but after the initial detection of the MoDem, I was let down by it saying that it needed the <tt>ltmodem</tt> package which wasn't on the CD. [Suse] 9.1 Personal comes with SunMicrosystems
' [Java], AcrobatReader and RealPlayer, so they're obviously happy with licensing software. The lack of internet connectivity meant that, without a network card in the laptop, I couldn't go any further with internet access.
Otherwise, YaST seems like a very clean interface for configuring a system, and isn't just a copy of Control Panel.
Being built on the 2.6 kernel, I would have expected better laptop support as well. Closing the hood seemed to make no effect, either on AC power or on the battery. The [ACPI] options in YaST suggested that there was no [ACPI] support, and [APM] didn't do anything.
