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,
