SuSE 9.3

Novell recently released SuSE 9.3. Thanks to my good friend Kevin, of Kevin's PC Repair (no web site yet), I've upgraded my notebook to SuSE 9.3.

The initial bootup was extremely slow, but on reboot things ran much smoother. The KDE sounds which seemed broke in 9.2 are fixed, at least the startup sound worked immediately.

I'm not as fond of the new login look, but I like the plastic theme that's been incorporated into KDE 3.4. Best of all is the new pop-up icons, they look real slick without hindering performance.

Ethernet was broke on startup, and when I tried to set it up, it thought my ethernet was /dev/ttyLT0, my Lucent winmodem. I did manage to get the ethernet set up, but it was intermitant until I rebooted, then everything worked as smooth as ice cream. No word on the modem yet. The other thing that broke was ndiswrapper. I've yet to determine if I can fix it.

Screen shots to follow soon.