On Monday 17 December 2001 08:43, Jeff Boyd wrote:
This weekend I took the plunge! I scrubbed XP off of my laptop (HP Pavilion XH485) and installed SuSE 7.3. I have been goofing with RedHat for years but this is my first SuSE experience. It impressed me so much that I I decided to make it my primary OS.
I have a couple of things yet to solve... How do I get my scroll wheel of the mouse to work? Also I need to know what a good solution would be to get the DVD drive to play DVDs. I have been looking at Ogle.. but have not tried it yet. I also noticed that 3d acceleration is not enabled for the video card (Trident Cyberblade 8 meg). Is this possible?
Anyway- good bye Microsoft...
JB Congrats, Jeff!
I first loaded RH 5.0 from the back of a book called :"Learn Linux in 24 Hours", by BIll Brush. (Bush? - I forget), but it took me 30 hours. That was in May of 1997. I dual booted with Win95 till Jan 1, 2000. That was when I noticed that I had not booted to the Win95 in several months. Sometime in middle or late summer of 1999. With W2K coming on I decided to purge Win95 and start the new year out right. I've never regretted it and never looked back. SuSE 7.3 was the best install I have ever experienced, and KDE2 has surpassed WinXX in functionality, and the apps equal or exceed WinXX apps in most respects. One aspect of the SuSE kernel is its modularity. Although it is not hard to do, I haven't found the need to recompile the kernel at all. I noticed that Jason Van Cleve was ranting about the lack of DVD drivers in Linux. There is actually no lack, it is just that one has to jump hurdles put in the place by a company Janson himself calls 'pure evil'. He is aware of what that means in terms of a monopolist and the predominance of WinHardware and agreements to keep technical data secret and/or propriatary. With the DMCA driver developers must work in 'clean' circumstances, and even then a lack of financial resources can stop development when a developer receives a letter from a lizard lawyer. He may well be within his legal rights to do what he is doing, he just can't defend himself against the 'charge'. Gates knows that, that is why he uses the techniques so much. So, congrates! You will never regret it and you won't be looking back. Jerry