Greg Thomas wrote:
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
Derek a troll? Nahhhh, to me it sounded like he had some good points, and also really liked Linux. It would be foolish to say Windows isn't the easiest, most intuitive OS on the planet - Linux is getting there - but it isn't yet. It took me hours to get my sound card and network working in Linux. How long in Windows? Maybe 15-30 minutes. Try Windows for awhile, you'll see what I mean.
It took you that long your first time, or now, with, say 6.4? I gotta hand it to SuSE because with an Intel NIC and a standard old SB AWE32 sound card I think anybody could have gotten sound and networking going in the same amount of time as it would take on Windows. It is such a piece of cake now.
All this depends. I spend about 4 hours yesterday to get a combination of an ancient Elsa Winner 100VL S3 video card running with an old monitor I had lost the data sheet from. Sax failed, XF86Setup wasn't any help either. I had the combination working until two years ago when I gave that machine away. Finally, I used xf86config that generated a gazillion of modelines, no success. I hand edited (inspired randomly hacked) the xf86config generated XF86Config file and got those interlaced modes working. Other problems with an "unplug and throw away" card: I could set IO and IRQ in isapnp.conf, but was lost for the "type" or "brand". For laughters, I started yast2, it recognised and configured that card faster than you coud do it it windows. Yast2 doesn't recognize the crystal 4532 (or so) soundcard, but OSS will. I lost fights against Win98 installing a SCSI card (both for an initio and tekram 395). Linux found and configured these cards usually before I was aware they were plugged to the system <grin>. Once I couldn't get a WD8013 NIC working on Win95 (worked well with 3.11). I think this list of good and bad examples goes on and on, if everybody add his / hers experiances. In the long run, I have more trust and confidence in Linux, secretly I claim Linux hardware support is better (in terms of trust). Some hardware or combination of hardware will always fail, wether you're on win or Linux and that won't change in the future. Our advantages are lists like this were you can post these questions and usually get the help you need or a reasonable explanation why not (yet). Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq