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On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 05:41,
Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:
> In my quest to rid myself of the skerg of msft x86 operating systems I ha=
ve
> 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 t=
he
> distros that have kept me from deleting the XP partitions on my main comp=
uter,
> 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 t=
o
> figure out the model and what not manualy
> 3. Most distros could not get a working X config file.
>=20
> SuSE 9.0 Personel Edition addressed 1 and 3 very well and made a good att=
empt
> 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 th=
e
> care correctly automaticly for dhcp work. To some degree I do not mind ha=
ving
> 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.
>=20
> 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 installati=
on
> 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 parti=
tion
> to my liking. SuSE defaulted to resier (which is fine) and had options th=
at
> included both NTFS and VFAT resizing.
>=20
> The desktop defaults to KDE but Gnome is availible. KDE is well setup wit=
h a
> significantly more powerful than stock controll panel.
>=20
> Assuming that within a days the 802.11b can be convinced to work and with=
in a=20
> 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.
I never thought I would say this...
SuSe cares about users freedom as much as Apple does. So, if you don't
care about your freedom, you are better off moving to OS X. It "just
works", which appears to be your primary concern. If concern number one
is losing "the evil empire" and the mandate is it has to "just work",
you should look at OS X.
--=20
Derek Neighbors
GNU Enterprise
http://www.gnuenterprise.org
derek@gnue.org
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