Having spent a night fresh-installing 8.0, I've got a bit of questions, and a few gripes (feedback?). If any of these questions have better addresses to be sent to, happy to hear about them. 1. [skip this, a friend solved why I couldn't find ndbm.h, OTOH, it sort of fits with 3. below] 2. What was the logic behind leaving out locate? To many people frightened by grinding disc noises at night? 3. I really had thought that 'default with office' from the 'Pro' version would at least install gcc, make, libtool, etc. IIRC, it always had that behavior for me on 6.4, 7.0, 7.1... Pretty standard development tools. Having to go back and do those and many more 'by hand' was not nice. What is the concept towards this? Personal == "joe desktop user", Pro == "J Random Hacker"? Such was my impression, based on prior experience with the distro. 4. I'd love to whine about the dearly departed rc.config, yast1, etc., but ok. You had good reasons (LSB, others). Sigh. You folks _do_ realize stuff like that is what makes users/admins especially loyal, right? 'nuff said. On the good side, I get rather a kick out of the frambuffer on tty1. Feels strange typing 'startx' while I'm already looking at a pretty picture. :-) Also, I'd swear the machine feels noticeably snappier. I'm not sure if this is X4.2 (?), the SuSE (aa patches applied) kernel, both, neither. But its certainly nice. Michael -- Michael Fischer Happiness is a config option. michael@visv.net Recompile and be happy.
At 20:05 05/02/2002 -0400, Michael Fischer wrote:
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On the good side, I get rather a kick out of the frambuffer on tty1. Feels strange typing 'startx' while I'm already looking at a pretty picture. :-)
What's this mean?
Also, I'd swear the machine feels noticeably snappier. I'm not sure if this is X4.2 (?), the SuSE (aa patches applied) kernel, both, neither. But its certainly nice.
I wish mine felt snappier. I went from SuSE 7.1 to a new install of 8.0 Pro, standard options except I chose the file system e3fs (is that the right name?) because I wanted access to the Linux system from MSWin, via Explore2fs. I'm running on an old Pentium 166 with 64 meg ram. I did not apply any patches; are they needed, and what do they do? To me, the system is uselessly slow. I will try this on a computer with a 700 MHz Athlon and 128 meg ram, and see what happens. Comments, anyone? BTW: I had a lot of trouble because this system will not boot from CD, and the basic install did not recognize the 3rd floppy. I'm not really sure how I finally got it to go, but it wasn't intuitive, I'll say that. One more question: I can modify the background of the screens at F2, F3, and F4, but I cannot get rid of the ugly green disaster under F1 no matter how I try. Anyone with a clue? Still in MSWin, because of the speed problem. /snip/ --doug
I had forgotten. The Trenton Computer Fair, which actually shows at Edison New Jersey, is going on now. The Sunday hours are 10AM to 4PM, flea market opens an hour earlier. Go to njexpocenter.com/directions.html . If you're coming from NY, the directions are not good. Take the Outerbridge and continue on route 440 to route 514 West and take that. The rest should be obvious.
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Doug McGarrett
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Michael Fischer