Bleeding-Edge Linux Desktop: SuSE Linux Professional 9.3
Novell Inc.'s SuSE Linux Professional 9.3 desktop gives not only other leading Linux desktop distributions like Xandros a run for their money, but also enterprise desktops such as Windows XP Pro.
Nat Friedman, vice president of Linux desktop engineering at Novell, said, "We are getting ahead of Windows for the first time."
After kicking SLP 9.3's tires, I agree. This is one impressive desktop distribution. It has every Linux application that anyone is ever likely to want and it's all tied together with either a slick and up-to-date KDE or GNOME interface.
It is not, however, for everyone and it also has its fair share of teething problems in its most advanced programs.
This is a Linux desktop for people who know Linux. No, it doesn't require the level of expertise that say the Ubuntu distribution does, but you're also not going to mistake SLP for such easy-to-use Linux distributions as Xandros, Linspire or even Novell's own Novell Linux Desktop.
No, this is a distribution for someone who wants to push the limits of what you can do with a Linux desktop today. In short, if you're a developer, a power user's power user, or someone who needs to see what 2006's corporate Linux desktop is going to look like, this is the distribution for you.
