it clown wrote:
to me it seems asif suse is always first to add new things to their distro. Why dont they first sort out all the little bugs for example: cd drive problems, wvdial and more than one network card will swop ip's. Maybe all these and more have been fixed in 9.3 seeing i am using 9.1. I like suse but it always seems asif there are small basic things that do not work as it should.
I'm on 9.3 and I haven't seen any CD drive problems either in new installs or upgrade of my x86_64 laptop. Wvdial on the x86_64 has worked right through from 9.2 to 9.3, I was surprised to see that it picked up my config which I must have done some time previously and not tested. By one or more network cards, I presume you mean ethernet bonding, looks simple from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/ethernet-bonding.txt, but I haven't yet tried it, I may have a go later as I have 3 boxen each with a spare ethernet connected to a second hub, but not bonded. I'm running 4 9.3 boxes including 1 x86_64 laptop and a P-II/333 laptop with 64M memory and 2M video using fvwm, 1 gentoo, 1 Mandrake 10.1 with SCSI and DVB-T card, 1 Mandriva LE2005 box, 1 BBIagent Linux box k6-II/333 128M as firewall to a cable modem (Astaro Secure Linux there as backup), plus one UltraSPARC 5 with the latest Solaris 10 installed and under KDE which I was surprised to see included, it's the same look and feel as my Linux boxen, they've included many GNU apps (including df, so "df -h" works) except for locate and recursive grep etc. and findutils from www.solarisfreeware.com, file says it's a package, but pkgadd doesn't recogise it, then again Sun has to retain a certain amount of same old hat stuff to let people know it's Solaris. All round SuSE has done a great job as has the other distros I use and I could use any of them in any environment. For many years I've used SuSE on the work's laptop to do everything, X3270 to talk to mainframes, xdmcp to admin large Solaris-based Sun/Fujitsu servers, give powerpoint presentations, run Lotus Notes mail, Citrix Linux client and use my home network to connect into work with the Cisco VPN Linux client and on the road, using a free ISP to dial-in to work using Cisco VPN. I've shown colleagues that I can do everything they can with Windows and more, just more securely, robust and versatile - all at a fraction of the cost as my SuSE distro is legal however many boxen it's installed on. Linux has been doing the job well on the desktop/laptop for years, I long ago cleaned Windows out of this house, even at my daughter's house they use SuSE 9.1 and recently she bought a new 17" LCD screen to replace the monitor - no problem, most time was spent getting it out of the box. Of course, I'd point any other occasional user at Linspire or Xandros if they weren't quite local to me. Regards Sid. <STUFF DELETED> -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks