Hello, yes, I do recommend SuSE. For 64bit users we are early adopters. Yet, SuSE 9.0 runs stable for me and beside hardware difficulties I had no trouble. The kernel I compiled myself solved the last minor issues about the box not shutting down cleanly. I am very happy. I consider the support provided by Mr. Kleen and Mr. Jaeger in this forum to be very good. Mind you, I am an MSDN subscriber and for this privilege I paid more than 3000 USD and I receive less support... regards, einar Colin Carter wrote:
Hi, I have the same stresses: In December I bought the AMD64 and SuSE 9.0 SuSE wouldn't install and it took three months of very poor support to discover that there was a problem. So I lashed out and bought SuSE 9.1 This version installs, but... I have been unable to connect to the internet ( had to buy another PC for that) And nobody seems to be able to advise me on how to configure my system so that I can code with X Window or Xt. It is nearly 11 months of hassle. Anybody recommend SuSE? Colin Carter
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Subject: [suse-amd64] Giving up on 64-bit Linux for now From:
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:22:18 -0700 To: To:
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Received: from bb-md1.onetel.net.uk (bb-md1.onetel.net.uk [212.67.120.193]) by mail05.onetel.net.uk (MOS 3.4.6-GR) with ESMTP id BRW30715; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 23:16:34 +0100 (BST) Received: from lists.suse.com (lists.suse.de [195.135.221.131]) by bb-md1.onetel.net.uk (MOS 3.4.6-GR) with SMTP id BKN08959; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 23:16:32 +0100 (BST) Received: (qmail 6019 invoked by alias); 17 Sep 2004 22:16:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact suse-amd64-help@suse.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: mailto:suse-amd64@suse.com List-Help: mailto:suse-amd64-help@suse.com List-Unsubscribe: mailto:suse-amd64-unsubscribe-colincarter=onetel.com@suse.com List-Subscribe: mailto:suse-amd64-subscribe@suse.com X-Mailinglist: suse-amd64 X-MIME-Notice: attachments may have been removed from this message Delivered-To: mailing list suse-amd64@suse.com Received: (qmail 6010 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2004 22:16:19 -0000 Message-ID: <8B214DEF3AF247FAB3A45F545F406878.MAI@mail.activeserverhosting.com> X-Mailer: MailEnable Web Mail 1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--=_NextPart_000_000B_10B1FCFD.EF7F43B2" X-Read: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at scanhost.suse.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 tagged_above=-20.0 required=5.0 tests=MIME_BOUND_NEXTPART, MY_LINUX, NO_REAL_NAME (Also posted to the main SuSE list so please excuse the lack of context regarding my previous setup)
So I went ahead and picked up an Athrlon 64. I"m much happier with it. It's much much quieter. And just as fast. There's a problem, though. I absolutely can't get 64-bit SuSE installed properly. 3 times after doing YOU updates my filesystem has been corrupted. About a dozen times I couldn't even do updates via YOU for some reason. They'd end in the middle mysteriously, then when I tried to run YOU again either the packages would still need to be installed or they wouldn't be installed and wouldn't be on the list. Either way it's been a mess. Worst of all, I rely on slrn as my newsreader (I've been trying to post to the newsgroup and can't) and it crashes when I try to post. It's a disaster, in short. I'm not sure if I'm trying to do things outside the norm or if there are generally problems with the 64-bit versions, but I"m beginning to think it's not worth my trouble for now. I have the chipset I want. I can upgrade later when these hassles go away.
FWIW, my motherboard is an MSI K8MM and my CPU is an AMD Athlon 3200+.
Someone suggested someone here may have some thoughts on what's going wrong. Any ideas given my setup?
Preston