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
"Sarcasm is the safe alternative to expressing anger."
--Richard North Patterson
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