8 on Inspiron 3500

Hi, Having decided that the drive on my 7000 had died I did a clean install on wife's 3500. Some thoughts: Make was not installed by default which seems odd. Try as moght I cannot get remote access allowed. Inetd is running with telnet ( in house network therefore safe ) enabled - portmap is not running but I cannot seem to get telnet in enabled in any run level ( presumably this is my lack of knowledge ) - otherwise 8 seems great - only shame is that my most used emacs package won't run under the version of emacs ( Not a SuSE issue ) and I don not know enough lisp to sort it. Easiest install since I started with 6.2 F