SUSE 9.3 Initial Thoughts

No joy yet in finding the full DVD ISO, but this page suggets it will be released (as opposed to the mini DVD and network install):

“The 32 bit verion (sic) is available on 5 CD ISO images or on a single DVD ISO image. The 64 bit version is available on 1 DVD ISO image only.”

Anyways, it is not too time consuming to install the 5 CDs, about 1-2 hours, depending on machine.

You can break up the installation and get a cuppa, as it is largely automated after the first CD.

My initial thoughts are:

• Hardware detection is improving
• Smoother and all necessary goodies are installed (media players, etc)
• The new text-to-speech modules in Gnome and KDE look promising.