SuSE Linux 9.1 Pro - I'm impressed

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Well, I installed SuSE Linux 9.1 Pro two days ago. I'm really impressed. Much faster bootup than SuSE 8.2 Pro.

The only problem I had was with CUPS. When one starts CUPS (for the setup and configuration of Printers), it changes the Username of CUPS to lp (from root). A trivial printer setup makes such a security issue really a pain in the neck. SuSE Support Database has an article about it, but who start consulting a Support Database after having just installed an OS for such a trivial printer issue?

Anyhow, I am very happy with XP Pro (installed some two weeks ago) and SuSE 9.1 Pro. Major leaps (not quantum leaps though).

[pointreyes]

The only problem I have had with SuSE 9.1 Pro.

"Searching for INFOPAGE...."

:( I cannot install it on my dual Opteron due to that error. I have tried the 64-bit and 32-bit distro to no avail. :( SLES 8 installs without a problem but not 9.1 Pro.

[sodface]

I got the Novell freebie pack today (finally!). I'm a complete noob to linux but I rightly or wrongly jumped in with both feet and went into the custom partitioning section during setup (for advanced users :look: ) I deleted all my partitions and then stopped there for about 2 hours while I tried to wrap my head around the pros and cons of different partitioning schemes. There are many, many differing opinions on it. I took my best guess and it's installing now. I have no idea if it will boot or not. I probably should have gone for the default at least for the first run.

You guys have any input on partitioning or any good links to tutorials?

[LostInSpace278]

I used SuSE 9.1 Personal, but I went with default. Tell me how it turns out, becuase right now, it's the only I have found, that I can use (Linux n00b) , that has native support for 64 bit.

[pointreyes]

sodface, I normally recommend that a newbie do the following for partitions:
swap file - at least 512 Meg.
/ (root) - at least 4 Gig.

That's it-that's all you need for learning Linux. No need for figuring out any of the others until you are much more advanced with Linux where you are using it in a production environment.

Normally, the swap file partition is before the root partition.

If multi-booting, then select the root partition for the location that you want the GRUB boot loader to be installed. I normally go into the expert settings to set up this stuff.

I use System Commander for my multi-boot loader for Windows and Linux, but you can use XOSL for a freebie.

[sodface]

I'm still wrestling around with my SuSE box. Everything seems to be running well but I was looking at this Top output and I'm a bit confused. It shows very little free memory but the processes' %mem are almost all 0. I'm a reading this right? What should I expect to see in this output? - This was from just sitting at the desktop with no open windows.


top - 21:31:10 up 2 days, 3:06, 2 users, load average: 0.28, 0.11, 0.04
Tasks: 89 total, 1 running, 88 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.3% id, 1.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 508364k total, 496248k used, 12116k free, 137488k buffers
Swap: 1052216k total, 4k used, 1052212k free, 179180k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 16 0 588 240 444 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.82 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 events/0
4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
5 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.38 kblockd/0
6 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
8 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.91 pdflush
10 root 7 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
9 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.72 kswapd0
165 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
443 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 reiserfs/0
512 root 6 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kcopyd
1078 root 23 0 2500 1264 2288 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 hotplug
1079 root 24 0 1360 380 1200 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 logger
1092 root 24 0 2500 1260 2288 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 pci.agent
1093 root 16 0 1360 480 1200 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 logger

[pointreyes]

You are seeing it correctly. Windows memory management is different from Linux memory management. Relax, it's ok. :)

[sodface]

Relax, it's ok.
hehe, thanks PR I'll quit try to quit pinging :p

[PaternityTest]

i run linux 24/7 ...quit dual booting this week windows is now gone ..... SuSE is too slow for me.......drives me nuts.......speed for me is key .......its not a horrible ditro ...its just not very good.... if yall ever wanna try something different ...try the speed optimised YOPER