SuSE 9.2 Professional

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I upgraded my laptop and desktop at work with SuSE 9.2. So far I am
happy with it. On SuSE 9.1 with the 2.6 kernel, I had 3 things not
working correctly:
1. touchpad on the laptop was too sensitive. Appears to be fixed in 9.2
with the 2.6.8 (patched) kernel.

2. I was not able to get APM suspend to work automatically on the
laptop. The kpowersave applet was able to place the system into suspend.
I have not really tried to get it working automatically with 2.6.

3. KMail (on my work desktop) would go into a loop taking up about 97%
of the CPU. A coworker of mine had manually upgraded to KDE 3.3 and
still had the problem. This appears to be fixed in SuSE 9.2. I left
KMail up all weekend and all day today with no problems, so this appears
to be fixed. 

4. SuSE 9.2 used X bits from X.ORG not XFree86 as Jim Gettys announced.
However I was looking for the composite manager and was unable to locate
it. 

5. JPilot is missing. I do not like Kontact. I was unable to build it
because the pilot-link headers are missing and pilot-link development
sources are not on the SuSE ISOs. I didn't have the time to download the
pilot-link sources. I might just install it from either the 9.1 RPMs or
just get the pilot-link sources. Not a biggie, just a minor annoyance. 

The other annoying thing is that OpenOffice is installed in
/usr/lib/ooo.1.1, not in /opt. Minor issue since I preserve my desktop. 
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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