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Executive Summary: SuSE Linux 8.0
| USABILITY |
Good |
| CAPABILITY |
Good |
| PERFORMANCE |
Good |
| INTEROPERABILITY |
Fair |
| MANAGEABILITY |
Good |
| SCALABILITY |
Fair |
| SECURITY |
Good |
With a focus on usability that doesnt come at the cost of flexibility, SuSE Linuxs SuSE Linux 8.0 rose to the top in our tests to earn the Analysts Choice designation. This SuSE Linux upgrade proved that it is well suited to supplant Windows on many mainstream desktop machines, with industry-leading distribution control and streamlined installation.
Cost Analysis
SuSE 8.0 comes in $39.95 Personal and $79.95 Professional editions. With a friendly interface for most system setup tasks, users should take to SuSE with minimal retraining, and SuSEs open-source status means theres no software licensing to track.
(+) Best control panel of the distributions we tested; very good installation routine; ships with KDE 3.0.
(-) Lacks Mandrake Linuxs file sharing and font utilities; no tools for setting up WLANs.
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(+) Best control panel of the distributions we tested; very good installation routine; ships with KDE 3.0.
(-) Lacks Mandrake Linuxs file sharing and font utilities; no tools for setting up WLANs.
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