I just installed SuSe 9.0 professional (kernel 2.6.x ready) on 5 different machines with only two hitches. One was a sound problem with a Pavilion 553w (Athalon with onboard everything) which I simply had to turn off plug and play OS in the bios. The other was the dreaded win modem driver search. Support was good, updates did not hurt anything, and 3D acceleration works on all machines. Setup for networking and masquarading was intuitive,simple, and complete in about 35 minutes for all 5 machines. I also tried out the install along side windows feature (resizing the NTFS file system to share hard drive) and had no problems. I am planning to repartion one system with a fat share so I can write as well as read windows application and doc files. DVD play back with Xine is outstanding! Love the screen shots, but, I had to enable by default DMA for the DVD drive. KDE 3.14 works better than Gnome for a change (I will try to fix that latter) and I think just needs to be updated. The amount of software that came with this distribution was mind bogling. Installation of my favorite browser "Firebird" went without a hitch. I am very satisfied with this release. I dumped RED HAT 9.0 which worked just as well since they are sending the project to Fedora.. I was a long time RH fan until they dumped the home desktop market. Fedora is hard to get and changes very rapidly. It will be more of a proving ground than a solid platform.
