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[Florida]
I thought last month was busy, this has turned into one busy summer. I just got back after spending the last week in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. As I mentioned in my last post, the company I am the IT Director for is openning an office down there. It was a great trip overall, Ft. Lauderdale is a beautiful area.

[Computer Issues]
Luckily I came to my senses and decided to test the components in the system that fried last month. I found out it ended up only being the power supply. So after nearly spending $1600 on a new system I just bought a new power supply instead. As much as I would like a new system this is much easier on the pocket book.

[SuSE 9.3]
Once I got the new power supply I was able to finally install SuSE 9.3! I won’t go into a lot of the detail here, maybe I will get around to a review later, but there have been several annoyances I have found.

(1) No matter what I do I can not get Beagle to work?
(2) Gnome was not installed by default…it was all KDE (which isn’t terrible)
(3) I read another review that complained that they used Gaim by default and that Kopete was not even available? Well in my install Kopete was installed by default and I had to install Gaim from the CD?
(4) With apt on Ubuntu, yum on Fedora, and urpmi on Mandriva (Mandrake) I have grown accutomed to these sorts of package management tools which I miss on SuSE (though you can install apt by third party packages). It doesn’t seem SuSE has nearly as many repositories as the other above distros.
(5) The SuSE applets (systray apps…hardware and system update applets) would not work correctly for me in Gnome. They would not integrate into the panel and would hang until I killed them?

Aside from that It has been a pleasurable experience, and the issues I did mention are really only minor. With more experience with SuSE I would imagine most of them (package management in particular) would not be an issue at all (where are all the SuSE repositories?).

One thing I love about SuSE is YAST, their set of configuration applications. I think this is one area where Red Hat/Fedora are well behind.

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