In my quest to rid myself of the skerg of msft x86 operating systems I have
tried several distros with the best until a couple days ago being knoppix
based debian. There have been several problems that have plagued all of the
distros that have kept me from deleting the XP partitions on my main computer,
a Dell 2650 laptop. These problems included:
1. Power managment did not work at all.
2. Until a week ago I could not find drivers for my WinModem that I had to
figure out the model and what not manualy
3. Most distros could not get a working X config file.
SuSE 9.0 Personel Edition addressed 1 and 3 very well and made a good attempt
at 2 out of box. The winmodem was correctly detected but not correctly
configured. All is not right with the world however, SuSE had the same
performace with my Oranaco 802.11b card as it did with my winmodem. This is
unaccptable as every other distro other than straght debian configured the
care correctly automaticly for dhcp work. To some degree I do not mind having
to go to other for help on a modem. But not having either a wirless card that
everything else has well supported nor the winmodem is unfoutanite.
The installations program is as pretty if not more than any other I have seen
and it allows many of the details to be setup automaticly. The installation
program made a good guess on how a normal person would want a windows box to
be turned into dual boot, however I am not normal and I was able to partition
to my liking. SuSE defaulted to resier (which is fine) and had options that
included both NTFS and VFAT resizing.
The desktop defaults to KDE but Gnome is availible. KDE is well setup with a
significantly more powerful than stock controll panel.
Assuming that within a days the 802.11b can be convinced to work and within a
few weeks I am able to convince the winmodem to work I will be freed from the
use of MS Windows on this machine forever.
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