Suse 9.3 was my first taste of Linux ever. I installed it on my HP ze4420us pavilion laptop, and accidentally wiped out my XP partition! I decided I didn't need Windows after all, and never looked back. Since then, I've gravitated towards Debian flavors, but I was happy enough with Suse when I was running it. On Friday 12 May 2006 21:09, Daniel Parraz wrote: > I am running Novell Suse 10.0 on my Toshiba A85-S107 with 1.4Celeron and > 768RAM, and have really enjoyed the speed of the system and ease of usage. > Setup of almost all hardware was done at setup, with eth0 and modem config > lacking on the network side. Config of these was easy, but havent had a > chance to test the modem - eth0 appears to operate at gigabit speed. > > Updates are painless, burning bootable iso's or regular data cd's is nice, > dvd playback has been funky due to the Novell version of media player, that > doesn't like the plug-in for viewing protected dvd's...but the work around > is just to get the non-Novell version from what I have read. > > Only thing I wish was different, would be the wireless network tools. Seems > like profiles are not used(havent found a way), so you have to keep a > record/text file of SSID and wep keys that you have for multiple networks. > An interface like the Nokia 770 I have would be nice, so that if the > default WLAN is not found, it will search for other broadcasting and show > the status of the AP, and chose one to connect to. > > Otherwise, very satisfied at the ease of usage and improvements gnome has > had in the last 4-5 years that I have used it. > > Daniel Parraz > > > > "Wagner, Steven G" wrote: >I have enjoyed using > OpenSuse 10.0 the most on work stations and notebooks. > > >I had not touched Suse for 10 years when I hated it. I had no problem > >installing it and YaST has sure come a long way (very nice tool). It > > seems to run quicker that Ubuntu, was not quiet as simplified as Ubuntu, > > but sure had a short learning curve. I use YaST to configure wireless > > with Suse which works ok, but still think the wireless adapter > > configuration tools > > are > > >poor! > > I'm running opensuse 10 on my dell 2200 inspiron (w/1.6ghz celeron m & > 512mb ram) and it's great. Initially, I had trouble finding any third party > repository servers for opensuse that were worth a $%*, but now I've got > some added in and can actually find, what I consider to be, basic binary > builds. > > I'm using my notebook with a Pasadena Networks 325HP+ wifi card and > regularly run Kismet, Ethereal and all the other usual pen-testing apps. > Also, I'm using it to study LAMP programming and run that stuff too. I > installed Debian, Fedora and Slackware on this machine before I finally > settled on opensuse 10. opensuse 10 configured everything perfectly (even > the synaptics touch pad which winxp didn't even configure correctly), I > loved the installer and I'm very happy with opensuse so far. > > Lately, I've been wondering whether it would be better to just purchase > SUSE and get all the non-free goodies, but I'm going to keep searching for > free ways to duplicate a full SUSE install. > > Here's the original article that convinced me to go with SUSE: > http://turing.sunyit.edu/nallalr/Files/SUSE_on_DELL/SUSE_on_DELL.htm > > I'm planning to install Gentoo on this system eventually, but I want to do > it right and install and configure a broad variety of apps and protocols so > I'm going to hold off until I have about 9- 12 dedicated days to spend on > it. I'm really gellin' with opensuse so until I convert to Gentoo, I'm > riding it till the fans fall off! > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/337 - Release Date: 5/11/2006 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Mail goes everywhere you do. Get it on your phone. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss