I’ve installed SuSE 10.1 Beta4 and Dapper Flight4 alongside each other, and thought I’d post a few thoughts.

From the SuSE release announcement:

“Beta4 has a number of ROUGH edges, so read the Most Annoying Bugs for Beta4 before you decide to download and test it.”

Boy, they weren’t kidding. The SuSE installer crashed after installing packages, and I had to log in as root and manually set up the rest of the system by hand. SuSE still doesn’t recognize my wireless card (Atheros), but that wouldn’t be such a big deal except that SuSE 9.3 worked fine with the same card. I wasn’t able to install the fglrx drivers, so I couldn’t give Xgl a try.

Ubuntu, on the other hand, was very stable, as long as I’m not running Xgl and compiz. Xgl runs ok, but compiz crashes the entire X session. I haven’t yet tried out wpa_supplicant (that’s for tommorow), but for just a standard desktop system, Ubuntu ran great, and it’s still in alpha stages.