[CS-FSLUG] Suspicious SUSE issues

[Mark Dalton]

You probably had the SuSE 9.1 pro version that had the original drivers and
the person did not come out until a month or two later.

I had various problems with SuSE 9.1 pro (CD version) including:
    XFS was severly broken on the release (they did provide a patched CD
           to update the the broken drivers)
    The x86_64 was only on DVD, and did not provide a network install 
version
           or a CD until at least months later. (I had to purchase a DVD 
player)
    Problems with a notebook upgrade from SuSE 9.0 pro to SuSE 9.1 pro
           scanning, CD burning did not work until I fixed permissions 
problems.
           (everything had worked with 9.0)
    Video problems with the Nvidia.

If you use YaST2 and do a on-line update and get the latest XFree86 and 
Nvidia
drivers, then everything worked very well.. I did hand tune the 
monitor/display
setup since it got messed up with the upgrade from SuSE 9.0 to 9.1.

But now my notebook happily boots, (rarely Windows XP, SuSE 9.1, RedHat 
ES WS 3.0, Debian)
I have Fedora Core 2 on some also.

I did not have USB issues though..

On 32bit platforms I have installed SuSE 9.1 pro from CD, DVD, and network.

I have also noticed a bug in SuSEs distribution as a NFS client in SuSE 
8.2, 9.0 and 9.1.
It mostly seems to happen with the NFS server is Irix.
    cd /Some_Irix_NFS_directory
    mkdir -p x/y/z 
    touch x/x x/y/y x/y/z/z
    rm -rf x
(Normally it should do a recursive remove without any errors.  It works 
on RedHat since 6.2.
  But it fails on SuSE in 8.2, 9.0 and 9.1)
    mwd at bwraid:~> cd /cray/iss/a5/mwd
    mwd at bwraid:/cray/iss/a5/mwd> mkdir -p x/y/z
    mwd at bwraid:/cray/iss/a5/mwd> touch x/x x/y/y x/y/z/z
    mwd at bwraid:/cray/iss/a5/mwd> rm -rf x
    rm: reading directory `x/y/z': Unknown error 525
    rm: reading directory `x/y': Unknown error 525
    rm: reading directory `x': Unknown error 525

Mark

N. Thompson wrote:

>I recently tried the SUSE 9.1 Personal edition iso that was freely 
>downloadable from SUSE, aside from the USB issues it worked flawlessly. Then 
>I added a mirror of the professional edition to the sources so I could get 
>access to more packages and I found that because I was running two different 
>sources with the same packages the two would conflict sometimes (perhaps the 
>personal edition CD is more up to date).
>
>Having found that the two sources were conflicting I downloaded the iso image 
>for the professional edition net installer and installed SUSE from there, it 
>took nearly three hours and when I finished I was very disappointed to learn 
>that my sound card wasn't supported and I had a lot of trouble getting the 
>display to work with the NVidia drivers.
>
>Now I'm wondering why I didn't have any of these issues with the personal 
>edition, I've always suspected that distributions which stand to make a 
>profit sabotage their free versions to convince people to purchase a copy 
>instead but since I can't be sure I have no idea whether I want to save for a 
>copy of SUSE Linux or not. I got the free SUSE resource kit which comes with 
>SUSE Linux 9.1 professional on DVD but I don't have a DVD drive so I cannot 
>find out for myself whether the issue lies solely with the free version of 
>SUSE 9.1 pro or if the personal edition simply has better hardware support.
>
>I was wondering if someone in the list would know whether the free FTP version 
>of SUSE Linux does actually differ from the boxed set in any way, and if not 
>then why did I have better luck installing and setting up the personal 
>edition then the professional (ftp) edition?
>
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