Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[jon_pennington@xxxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 00:13:13 +0800, Dennis wrote:

> I mark this an important day in life. (1st Sept 99, what's the big deal?)

  Yeah, why're you wasting my bandwidth? ;)

> I have just setup SuSE 6.2 on my PII-350/128MB. I got my CL TNT2 and Live
work without any difficulty, but the most important: I finally got the
internet setup and this is the first message sent through Linux. :-)

  Fantastic stuff, man!  Congratulations!

> I need to thank people like Jon Pennington, Guy Van Sanden and many other
experts who guided me along the way.  Without them, I maybe still wondering
with WindozZ and paying 'bill'.

  <sheepishly>What did I do?</sheepish>  Now that you're up and running,
it's up to you to make sure that you help other people with their problems,
right?  Freedom comes with responsibility. ;)

> What's next? I will be trying out other options like gnome (can't get it
work in 6.2),

  Sincerly, good luck!  I didn't have any trouble using the default 6.2
packages, but I couldn't ever get custom code to work right.  Keep us
posted...

> xfce (what's that?)

  Why, only the finest environment there is, sir!  I like KDE+XFWM,
personally.  They get along together quite nicely.

> modem and print server and maybe...SAMBA if I can survive till then.
(without giving up along the way)

  We're still here, aren't we?  I don't know how much help I can be with
your more sophisticated networking ventures, but together, we can sort
anything out, right? :)

> As I reported before, I am currently playing with RH6.0, Mandrake 6.0 and
SuSE 6.2 and only SuSE give me a very stable platform, the other two are
rather unstable, dunno why?

  Because Mandrake is based very heavily on Red Hat, and Red Hat 6 was
(IMHO) a product that wasn't ready for market yet.  I like Mandrake's speed,
but I'm not willing to put up with it's Red Hat legacy and all that goes
with it.  Red Hat 6 is glibc2.1, but it's not even a stable release of 2.1.
SuSE 6.2, OTOH, is a stable 2.1 system.

> I deeply believed that I've made the right choice, SuSE is my Linux...

  That's what I said about six months ago. :)  I played with Mandrake, too,
but decided it wasn't worth the headache.

> I would like to share with all the new 'joiner' to this list, as I am only
started playing Linux in about 3 months ago, but with the help from this
list, I've learn lots of things way before I need them.

  I'll tell you, I've learned more in the last three months by subscribing
to this list than I learned in three years of using Linux on my own!  Stick
around, it'll be fun!

> Keep it up, thank you to all.
> 
> Dennis
> Newbie from SG.

  I love stories with happy endings.  Not that this one is anywhere near the
end...;)

-=|JP|=-  (Resident GNUbie)

Jon Pennington             | SuSE Linux 6.2
jon_pennington@xxxxxxxxxx  | Kernel 2.2.10+
Kansas City, Missouri, USA | K6-2 350

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