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MadPenguin.org has a report on Suse’s new Enterprise Desktop 10, and reviewer Adam Doxtater is convinced that Suse has a winner on their hands, with what could be the most impressive distribution released ever. Suse already holds that distinction with Suse Linux 10.1, which is currently ranked second-best (with Ubuntu on top). Just reading the feature list for the new SLED 10 has me convinced as well, and this is one release I will be really waiting for.

SLED 10 is a stellar release and Suse’s attention to detail is praiseworthy (as the article mentions, for example, the desktop reflects the color of the ipod thats plugged into the system, even after hot-swapping black and white ipods). The biggest (and most prominent) change is the desktop switch, with Suse moving away from their KDE-centricity and defaulting to GNOME this time.

While SLED 10 may not be a Vista-killer in the true sense of the term - although its only a matter of time before Windows stagnates into oblivion, unless Microsoft can get its act together and revamp from the ground up. The industry is already going as far as calling the unreleased Windows Vista operating system a ‘Windows Me 2.0′, the most bloated Windows release of all time (they’ve moved from CDs to DVDs now), with features that just about bring the beast on par with OS X (Tiger, not even Leopard) and other popular linux distributions.

Link to the article (a highly recommended read), with installation and interface screencasts (the article has links to more).

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 8th, 2006 at 10:47 pm and is filed under Linux, Open Source, Windows.