kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
i will be buying a new laptop in a week or so.
In stage 1 I hope to run a dual boot system, some windoze version and then suse 10.3, probably 32 bit but that's not final, the 64 bit ver is not only faster, but it is approaching the 100% compatibility mark.
no, thanks, i will not try 11.0 or 11.1 yet, i need a kde that has *no* hooks to kde4 until at least kde 4.4 as they mark them, but let's not digress.
11.0 is fine with kde 3.5. Most of all, the repository refresh improvement is worth the switch to 11.0 on its own. I concur with "no thanks" for 11.1 and kde4.
In stage 2 I hope to run suse 10.3 as the base system, then the plan is to load up vmware and run 2 or 3 virtual oss'es, and to include the "default" windoze partition as a vmware option.
Skip stage 1. Load the laptop using 100% of your available space, and then download and install virtualbox (from the virtualbox.org site) and allocate 10-20G of space for your virtual disk, load XP, and the virtual-extensions and never look back -- no need to. ATI will be fine after this latest snafu is cured. I have the 9.2 driver to install and check performance with. If it is still slow, then just switch back to the 8.9 driver and you will be good. NOTE: the 8.9 driver will not install on 11.1, but works great on 11.0. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org