On 8/5/05, Eric Katherman <vaiod@berloy.com> wrote:
In addition, I forgot to mention bluetooth. It just worked. I plugged
in my bluetooth dongle and I could instantly send data to and from my V3
and my friend's Powerbook. I had to work to get bluetooth to work in
SuSE 9.1 but in 9.3 it just works. I don't know how the rest of the
distos fare in regards to bluetooth but I can honestly say that SuSE 9.3
does a great job.
-Eric
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:51 -0700, Eric Katherman wrote:
> Well I don't have any recent experience with Acer laptops but I do have
> experience with SuSE on my Thinkpad. I would highly recommend it and
> now that you can download the iso's, what do you have to loose. I
> haven't had a single problem with my setup. Everything was detected
> after install, wireless, display, network, sound, touchpad. The only
> thing I had to do was install the ATI drivers if I wanted OpenGL. I
> also had 9.1 on the same Thinkpad without any problems.
>
> I tried Mandrake a few times in the past and just didn't get the same
> feel I get when I am using SuSE, just my oppinion. As you said, there
> is no point in starting a war, we all love the ditros we use for
> different reasons. The choice is what makes Linux so great.
>
> -Eric
>
>
> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:21 -0700, Jason Hayes wrote:
> > --clipped
> > If anyone has any experience with Suse and Acer laptops and can send it
> > my way, I would appreciate it. If not, I will likely head back to
> > Mandrake or Mandriva and see if that continues to work.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jason Hayes
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I
have tried both on my laptop, a Fujitsu N3010 and had only mixed luck
with Suse (could not get ATI OpenGL to work, could not get the Broadcom
WiFi chipset to work, system standby was only functional after a lot of
tweaking) but otherwise, Suse is a very polished distro and works
extremely well on all the Desktops I have tried.
Mandrake/Mandriva just worked. It is more bleeding edge and
therefore more prone to bugs, but that's what I like. It took about 30
minutes to get Wireless-G working because of ndiswrapper and the
encryption setup. Works great. The ATI driver just works. Also, the KDE
3.4 available for the 2005 LE version, is noticably faster than the
previous versions.
I think either will work for you depending on the hardware configuration. And most of those issues can be resolved.
--
Donn
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