Xayd
05-15-2004, 04:13 AM
I just grabbed and installed this to give freevo a try on my TV comp, and I must say, I'm impressed.
I don't think they have this on FTP yet, there was a message in the SuSE primary FTP server that they would have images in there in June, although they're selling the CDs already.
It's on alt.binaries.warez.linux tho (altho it's not warez, since it's free of course unless you wanna pay for the CDs to get support).
Either way...
1) completely graphical install
2) Kernel 2.6.4 by default, also gives you sources by default.
3) detected every piece of hardware in my box (even tho it didn't have the ivtv drivers it ID'd even my capture card properly and suggested where to get em).
4) ALLOWS YOU TO PICK KERNEL MODULES/DRIVERS BEFORE YOU INSTALL (ffs why can't more distros do this, nothing is a bigger pain in the ass than to have to spend an hour watching an install bar scroll by only to spend another hour after scrolling thru kernel options 1 by 1, and another hour recompiling a custom kernel to add stuff that you knew you needed anyways)
5) Has a pretty smart system of suggesting kernel options based on hardware detection (I went to try and add a couple, such as the module for capture card-specific Ir devices that were already flagged by the installer based on detected hardware ).
6) Properly detected model number and freq ranges on my monitor (again, something most distros don't bother to compile data for to include in their installers).
7) For devices they can't include a driver for (for instance nVidia cards), they provide you with a shell script to fetch them from somewhere automatically, so you don't have to dig around various FTPs looking for drivers, also pretty nice.
8) And of course, Yast owns, I've tinkered with damn near every setting that it allows you to tinker with in the past couple hours and haven't found any bugs yet (even when playing with various video modes).
All in all, this distro was about as easy to install as Win2k/XP are, altho I'd never run all the extra fluff that it installs on a server box, my BF server is gonna continue to be Debian, but I must admit it's a pretty damn fine setup for someone who wants a quick and easy linux workstation.
Discuss.
I don't think they have this on FTP yet, there was a message in the SuSE primary FTP server that they would have images in there in June, although they're selling the CDs already.
It's on alt.binaries.warez.linux tho (altho it's not warez, since it's free of course unless you wanna pay for the CDs to get support).
Either way...
1) completely graphical install
2) Kernel 2.6.4 by default, also gives you sources by default.
3) detected every piece of hardware in my box (even tho it didn't have the ivtv drivers it ID'd even my capture card properly and suggested where to get em).
4) ALLOWS YOU TO PICK KERNEL MODULES/DRIVERS BEFORE YOU INSTALL (ffs why can't more distros do this, nothing is a bigger pain in the ass than to have to spend an hour watching an install bar scroll by only to spend another hour after scrolling thru kernel options 1 by 1, and another hour recompiling a custom kernel to add stuff that you knew you needed anyways)
5) Has a pretty smart system of suggesting kernel options based on hardware detection (I went to try and add a couple, such as the module for capture card-specific Ir devices that were already flagged by the installer based on detected hardware ).
6) Properly detected model number and freq ranges on my monitor (again, something most distros don't bother to compile data for to include in their installers).
7) For devices they can't include a driver for (for instance nVidia cards), they provide you with a shell script to fetch them from somewhere automatically, so you don't have to dig around various FTPs looking for drivers, also pretty nice.
8) And of course, Yast owns, I've tinkered with damn near every setting that it allows you to tinker with in the past couple hours and haven't found any bugs yet (even when playing with various video modes).
All in all, this distro was about as easy to install as Win2k/XP are, altho I'd never run all the extra fluff that it installs on a server box, my BF server is gonna continue to be Debian, but I must admit it's a pretty damn fine setup for someone who wants a quick and easy linux workstation.
Discuss.