Newbie guide to SUSE 10.1

granduke · Post by **granduke** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:23 pm

If you are trying to convert a windows user to linux. You might want to recommand SUSE and give him this very well written guide.

http://theseoconsultant.com/suseblog_im ... e_ever.pdf

I was away for a day and I asked my wife to go thru a SUSE install following this guide and follow it's tutorial. She had no problems.

granduke

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:59 pm

I'm a little nervous about using SUSE 10.1 as a distro to give to new users, because of all the hastles with the package manager and stuff, but when 10.2 rolls around, I say go for it!

Plus, not to mention, SUSE has their own really high quality documentation: http://download.opensuse.org/distributi ... e/docu/en/

jsusanka · Post by **jsusanka** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:59 pm

Tsuroerusu wrote:I'm a little nervous about using SUSE 10.1 as a distro to give to new users, because of all the hastles with the package manager and stuff, but when 10.2 rolls around, I say go for it!

Plus, not to mention, SUSE has their own really high quality documentation: http://download.opensuse.org/distributi ... e/docu/en/

I am not so sure I agree with that anymore.

I did a couple of new installs of suse on some machines and got the updates on the install and when I did that everything ran pretty darn smooth. their update stuff seems to be getting ironed out and I haven't had any trouble with it at all lately. I think if they get the updates on the install they will have less trouble. Although it is kind of confusing because it gets the updater updates first and then restarts yast and then gets the updates for other software.

anyway just my two cents worth.