Post-installation, SuSE did give us a shock. So this wouldn't have been a problem if we hadn't over-written the new inittab file with our old, but customised inittab file. There weren't any other surprises in store for us except for a pleasant one. Yast2 has been beefed up further. One thing they heard us on was the inclusion of a search utility in Yast2.
Text mode remains a horrible crude implementation.
An interface like Yast1 will be greatly appreciated. Not all of us sit in the GUI, so we would appreciate if some action would be taken here. And where upgrading to SuSE is concerned, upgrades from 6.4 and 7.0 releases of SuSE were smooth and no post-installation problems were detected. Conclusion SuSE 7.1 is definitely the version that should have held the 7.0 tag. There's a huge amount of software, excellent documentation and a nice user-friendly installation routine packed in this.