Customer Reviews
Windows of the Linux World 
2006-06-10
It has been branded as such. Windows of the Linux World. It has a huge GUI interface. So why not just boot Windows? If you want a CLI Linux that actually runs more like Unix than Windows then get Slackware instead (and its free).
Putting compute back to computer 
2006-06-01
First of all I started working on computers when there were no floppy drives,CD's monitors etc..just paper tape and punch cards.. A computer did what you wanted it to do.. Winbloz takes away all that - you can never go and change whet you need to change (and have it work) XP I got totally sick and tired of the hotfixes and applications that I have run suddenly quit, and when trying to use it for networking constantly changed everything which included complete crashes !!!
I have tried several dispos of Linux and the more I messed with it the more it did what I wanted it to do-- SuSE 10.0 is the cats meow!! This thing cooks -- I run 4 computers and they all run SuSE 10.0 now -- no Winshnoz here anymore ----installation a snap no hardware detection problems (mind you an ancient but dependable HP Deskjet 400 was found and configured) muchless ham radio apps to monitoring ALL my UPS systems and what else do you want it to do --
For the people that have all the problems Linux like Unix was never a point and click system but if you want one this is it !!
If you want a first rate computer, use a first rate operating system SuSE 10.0 !!!
Bill who???????
Too many small problems 
2006-05-26
This distro of Linux has too many small problems to enjoy using. Nothing works exactly the way it should out of the box.
- Firefox movies don't work by default. You have to download and install new packages. There is no documentation describing how to do this.
- PDF files won't open in Firefox using the default installation. There's a broken package (dragonegg) that prevents the PDFs from launching, and you have to remove that first.
- The xmms included in the system doesn't work. You have to reinstall it.
- Xemacs with CJK support doesn't work. I had to download and build xemacs myself to get it to work.
- Many small, annoying build problems crop up from time to time. For example, the version of /usr/share/aclocal/pilot-link.m4 that comes with the system has a syntax error in the first line.
- Network printing doesn't work correctly out of the box. I had to hard-code the IP address of my printer, rather than having it find it dynamically the way Windows does.
- Simple tasks like reconnecting when you lose your wireless internet connection have no documentation. Eventually you might get lucky and figure out that clicking on the internet icon tries to connect again, but there is no visual indication that it is doing anything, so it is pure guesswork to get that right.
I have no idea if other distros come with this many problems, but this is a ridiculous list of small errors that should have been caught before release. These problems ruin the experience for both casual users and serious developers. I suggest casual users stick to Windows, which probably came bundled with your Dell, and developers find a distro that doesn't waste hours of your time with annoying problems.
I don't want to make it sound all terrible. The installer is crazy simple, and you don't even need to be two or eight years old like some other reviewers have suggested. My -3 month old unborn cousin was able to install it from the womb. Dual boot is easy to set up and works very nicely, which means that whenever there's something that just doesn't work in Linux, I can reboot my system to Windows. Finally, the online customer support is excellent, which is important considering how often you will need it.
not the product, the reviews!!! 2006-05-24
haha these reviews kill me:))
I have personally seen a child as young as 8 install SuSE
on an existing installation of Windows XP Pro, just to see if it could be done.
If it were water here under review, Im sure it would get no stars
because people around here would complain about almost drowning
when drinking a cup of it!! hahahahahaha!
given that birds of a feather flock together, please get your friends to try SuSE and have them comment here about their experience. I getting a great book idea:)
Computer went down 2006-05-21
My computer will not load up now, it is displaying only text like a typewriter. There is no mouse or no windows on the desktop now. Where did it all go to, I tried to edit a file, now it gets hung on a kernal pan-ache or something.
A good lesson learned from this, just stick with Windows at least if you have to turn it off it boots back up again!
Works nice! 
2006-12-06
I installed Linux thousands of times in the late 90's. It was a pain to get the OS working on my system. I gave up for a number of years. I recently installed SUSE Linux 10 and I am amazed at how well the installation went, how user friendly the OS is, and how easy it is to use. I would say if you are interested in trying a good quality Linux system to test the waters, this is where you should start. Maybe buy a book on moving from windows to linux as well.
4 stars because I don't give 5 stars.
SuSE 10.0 doesn't play nice. 2006-11-05
Unlike the four versions of SuSE Linux I've used and liked over the years, the 10.0 release took over my machine as if it were a MS OS. It made the pre-existing XP Home installation unusable. After installing SuSE 10.0, my Win XP OS was history, it was Novell's "SuSE" Linux only. Thanks Novell, I'll never buy what was once a very fine flavor of Linux again.
u decide 2006-06-17
Can it run linux commands? SUSE: yes SLACKWARE: yes
Can a Windows user use it right now? SUSE: yes SLACKWARE: no
Can I buy it and install it from CD? SUSE: yes SLACKWARE: no
Can it run with no GUI? SUSE: yes SLACKWARE: yes
Sub Redhat for Suse in the table & its the same result.
Slackware is just linux without a gui.
To say having a gui somehow prevents learning the os command line is a crock.
Ask anybody that writes win32 Windows scripts all day.
The windows-like display (gui) is open source and appears in other linux flavors like red hat and fedora core. To say u learn only suse is more crock food.
To address those issues 2006-06-17
1. All Linux packages should be able to close X to reveal a CLI. However Slackware uses a CLI for nearly everything it does. SuSE has lots of windows type GUI for nearly everything it does. Linux users never really end up learning Linux with SuSE.
2. The Kernel is what it is called. Slackware actually makes you learn kernel compiling if you want the latest kernel.
3. Linux commands do not change across linux distros. It is all Linux. The problem is SuSE doesn't teach you any of it because it provides you with all the GUI you could want.
I have used SuSE and think it is great if you want start using Linux but you certainly won't learn Linux. You learn SuSE.
slackware? 2006-06-11
1. Slackware doesnt have a graphical interface that can be turned on & off at will. Suse does.
2. The Linux core operating system is the same across all variants of Linux, including slackware and suse.
3. The CLI (command line interface) varies across linux variants just as it does across UNIX variants. To suggest that these slight differences would impair anyone familiar with the UNIX CLI from using any variant of linux is incompetent.
