On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:08:02PM -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Chris Carlen wrote:
contiemilio@virgilio.it wrote:
Hi all I just bought a notebook for my daughter (Dell Inspiron 510m). Tested with Knoppix 3.7 (wonderful) Tested with FreeSBIE 1.0 (see above). Then, yesterday in the afternoon, I tried to install SuSE 9.1: yast did not start in graphical mode or with incredible colours and characters if I changed the screen resolution on boot. Since I am quite curious I tried SuSE 9.2 (same result), Mandrake 10.0 (same result), SuSE 8.2 (WORKS FINE!!)
Is there anyone thet can explain to me such a behaviour
Ciao emilio
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I'm really getting fed up. It's not just Linux's or Suse's or KDE's fault. The software industry is broken, thanks to a large degree to the anticompetitive atmosphere. And the stupidity of the marketplace that demands new features and accepts mediocre quality.
For the original message, the fact 8.2 worked and 9.X didn't well, think about it, one has the 2.4 Kernel, the other has 2.6 That's a HUGE difference my friend. My laptop, would run GREAT with 8.2 and 9.1 had lots of problems, and then after 9.2 was put on, NO TROUBLES. It really depends on a lot, mainly drivers.
I've considered Mac. I wonder if it's any better?
*Cringe*
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I run SUSE 9.1, 8.1 and various other flavors of linux. But I also run the Free BSD kernel disguised behind a popular GUI known as Mac OS X 10.3 ;-)
Free BSD is only at the core of it and VERY moded.
And all I can say is that I think it is worth every penny. I love fussing with linux, free or otherwise, working or not. But the Mac is simply awesome. Nothing broken about that end of the software industry.
Hmm maybe I just pushed the one I used at school way to much. I mean gee it only had TWO 1 GHz processors a GIG of RAM and a 30 INCH FLAT SCREEN MAC Monitor, and I had it lagging so bad it was barely useable.... All I had open was image editing software I had to use and it was lagging terribly and started crashing. It kind of made me laugh thinking this box I'm typing from only has one processor and it's MUCH slower than even ONE of the processors that Mac had and less than a quarter of the RAM and I can use GIMP with SUSE, and do the SAME shit, without it lagging. I don't think I've had many good Mac OS experiences. Bothers me to hear you say it was worth every penny considering how many you need just for the hardware of a Mac.
-- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing"
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