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    SuSE 10 Travels Well

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    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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    October 13, 2005
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      Im on vacation this week. For me, though, vacation includes carrying around my Linux-powered laptop.

      So while youre going to have to wait for a while for my full review of SuSE 10, I had to let you know sooner than later about how SuSE 10 handles on the road.

      Why? Because unlike most Linux desktop distributions, OpenSuSE and Novells SuSE 10 work extremely well as a road-warrior operating system.

      Linuxs main problem with laptops has been a lack of drivers.

      SuSE 10, on the other hand, does well both by my variety of USB drives that I use in lieu of floppy disks and CDs for transporting data from machine to machine, and by my Wi-Fi equipment.

      Specifically, Im in Washington, DC, with a Toshiba Satellite A35-S159. It has 512MB of RAM, a 2.3GHz Pentium 4M and a 60GB hard drive.

      /zimages/2/28571.gifClick here to read more about SuSE 10.

      It also has an Atheros AR5001X+ wireless network adapter, which supports the whole Wi-Fi gamut of 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g, in a Centrino-style packaging.

      I need all three since I run g and a in my home office. On the road, of course, while 802.11g is becoming more common, youre still more likely to find 802.11b.

      /zimages/2/28571.gifRead more here about the first OpenSuSE Linux distribution.

      In the past, Ive had great trouble getting Linux to support the AR5001X+, even though its a very common Wi-Fi set.

      With SuSE 10, though, there was no trouble whatsoever getting it to work. I installed it, I tried it, it worked.

      Thats my kind of setup.

      /zimages/2/28571.gifRead the full story on Linux-Watch: SUSE 10: On the Road

      eWEEK.com Senior Editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has been using and writing about operating systems since the late 80s and thinks he may just have learned something about them along the way. He can be reached at [email protected]

      /zimages/2/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest open-source news, reviews and analysis.

      Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
      I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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