On Sat, September 2, 2006 1:23 pm, Paul Abrahams wrote:
I'm about to install a Linux system on a new box. I have the SuSE DVD for 10.0 and I assume I can download the one for 10.1, possibly minus some proprietary stuff (where can I find that if I want it?)
Online. Not a problem.
Looking at posts here, it appears that people are having more problems with 10.1 than with 10.0; it looks like 10.1 has introduced a number of changes that broke things that were working in 10.0. So which one should I install?
Well, you've probably have read the other opinions here. I'll throw in my 2billion ReichMarks, even if others probably don't like it.
Linux releases seem to be like wine vintages; different vintages of the same product can vary greatly in quality, and newer isn't necessarily better.
No, the quality is the same, though there may be bugs here and there. However, it appears your mind may already be made up. With the exception of the update being FUBAR, 10.1 seems very nice and speedy. (I don't have same machines running 9.3 and 10.1 so can't do actual comparisons - it is a gut feeling.) This may partially due to the newer kernel versions and the newer KDE versions. In fact, I installed 10.1 on this laptop again in spite of the problems. I was thinking of Linspire, since it is now free, but couldn't handle going back to KDE 3.3x after having run 3.5 on this system. Wireless works great, now that I know the trick of using KWallet with KWiFiManager. This is the first time, I've been truly able to not bitch about wireless. It just works. (TM) Also, I noticed some complaints about automounting. I'm not sure what the problem is, as I've ignored those emails. Just for kicks, I popped my 2G flash drive in my laptop right now. I copied a 19MB MP3 file over to the hard drive in a little over a second. I then copied it over to a new folder on the drive in under two seconds. I recall this being an issue in 9.3 and 10.0 where I had to change some settings in order to get anything faster than 6Kb/sec. Oh, and the mp3 plays just fine, thanks. So does flash (much better than installing it myself) and my DVDs. So, I'd say 10.1 is incrementally better than 10.0 - I find it seems to be working well for my needs. One I figure out the SMART thingy and can dump this ZMD kludge, I'll be a happy camper. Oh, and I was very happy to come back to my laptop this evening. I spent three hours over at an older friend's house. The couple have a two-year-old WinXP machine that was so infected with whatever, that they couldn't even open e-mail attachments. In addition to me having to update WinXP and rebooting about fifty gazillion times, as well as installing AGV, spybot, firefox and adaware, I found a funny anomaly. Because of the lame-ass method of installing Windows apps, they ended up with four seperate versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader. I had to manually remove version 4.0, because the installer wouldn't work I then removed five and six and left them with 7.0. By comparison - a little updater issue seems insignifigent. Now to watch a few YouTube videos....ahh, here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bRDwZ7bcXg ...tastes great...less filling... -- Kai www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request