Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2700 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Donn L Washburn wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:54:07 +0100
>  Info <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Was ruuning 8.2 and quite liked this distro.  Decided to upgrade to 
> > 9.3.  Wouldn't updgrade so had to install from scratch - big mistake!
> >
> > Finding 9.3 very slow.  Took install suggestions as far as disk 
> > configure is concerned but do not really understand what happened. 
> > Told it may be something to do with the way the disk(LVM) is 
> > configured?  Open Office keeps falling over.  Desktop hangs quite 
> > often - what does this remind you of?  At least killing the X-server 
> > allows me to sign on again.  Would like to be able to switch on/off 
> > NIS also network devices?
> >
> > Seriously considering reverting to Fedora
> I also agree.  SuSE9.3 has been nothing but a headache.  About 50% of 
> the programs that compiled very clean under 9.2 fail to compile in 9.3.
> Try jpilot that worked under 9.2.  The only way I got it to work was 
> via  a RPM.  My guess is SuSE is now using old RPMs and not one compiled 
> under 9.3.
It could also be the sources at fault. If I build anything, I get the 
latest as they are more likely to build and work. Earlier you mentioned 
wine-20050524, that fails to build, but wine-20050628 builds fine.

> To also to get a USB drive to work it takes about 4 or 5 reboot efforts 
> to be seen by the system.  However, "lsusb" see it just fine
>
> >

I wonder what dmesg said about it.
I've not had any of the horrors on upgrades that I had with 9.2. the 9.2 
fresh installs worked great, the upgrades took a lot of jiggery pokery 
to get working. 9.3 both upgrades and fresh installs have been 100%, x86 
on Athlon and P-II/333 64M + 2M video card laptop and x86_64 laptop.
Regards
Sid.
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