My main machine is a Dual Xeon 500Mhz Dell. It's still chugging along
on v9.2. Quite frankly, other than maybe installing the newer kernel
to see if it solves some of my sound problems(SMP is weird. I have
IRQs in the 180s), I'm pretty happy with it and don't see much need to
upgrade.
Mencoder is much fast when recompiled from source. At least 50%.from
what I have seen. I'm still not that impressed with the P4s. I'm only
getting 13fps xvid 1st pass on this 2.4Celeron Mobile and I get about
10 1st pass on my Xeon(mencoder does not support SMP).
My first was v5.3. I THINK I bought just about every version up to 8.1.
Never had a high speed connection till then. 5 CDs d/ls SLOW on dial
up. Feature bloat is a big gripe of mine. It is irritating to be
REQUIRED to install files to support ISDN, bluetooth, etc, when I have
never had this hardware and probably never will. I would like to see
YaST be able to scan the hardware and then offer to install support for
devices that you may have that aren't currently plugged in. It's a
waste of HD and memory to have these unneccessary files forced on us.
I don't even install OpenOffice. KOffice does just fine for me.
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From: Peter Czanik