openSUSE Education 11.3 - still not there yet | ZDNet

openSUSE Education 11.3 - still not there yet | ZDNet

openSUSE Education 11.3 - still not there yet

By Christopher Dawson | July 18, 2010, 11:18pm PDT

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Is it openSUSE or their educational package that’s the problem? Hardware and installer issues certainly suggest that the problem lies with Novell, not a hugely dedicated group who wants students to have access to the best FOSS available.

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I really wanted to love the latest version of openSUSE’s education-oriented distribution, Li-F-E (Linux For Education). It was released this weekend, alongside version 11.3 of the main openSUSE distribution, and was incredibly promising with a host of great features. Ultimately, though, it was let down by poor hardware support and a glitchy installer that left me anxious to switch back to Ubuntu.

openSUSE is Novell’s community-driven, free Linux distribution. It’s powerful, fast, and feature-rich. Layer on a group of super-smart, completely dedicated educators/developers/volunteers who run the Education group and it would seem that you have a recipe for success. According to the group’s website,