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Hi again Basil: On Sunday 06 May 2001 22:31, you wrote:
Jonathan:
Many thanks for your 3 messages of help for me. I can't believe that there's such a major bug in the Suse system, and that bothers me quite a bit. If beta testing didn't pick it up, then I'm forced to wonder what other bugs may still be present. Bummer. I was looking forward to trying it out, too.
YAST1 should work quite well. After I wrote you, I created yet another user account just to make sure that the advice I gave was, indeed, correct. Basically There is a lot of change going on in the Linux distros. New kernel; new desktops (GNOME and KDE); and new XFree86. So there is bound to be some difficulties. This is the price of progress. From my experience, I do not see any major bug in SuSE 7.1. The overwhelming majority of my desktop apps work and I have no instabilities. Did you get all the relevant updates from the SuSE site? I have installed Scilab, RealPlayer, Chemtool, Qcad and the latest edition of KDE. I have also compiled in Octave. All these are working quite well. If you are still having problems creating user accounts, please post to the list. I am most interested as to why YAST1 should not work. However it cannot hurt to try the latest release if you are experiencing exceptional problems with SuSE. Mandrake is a good distro; they employ one of the top KDE developers, David Faure. -- Cheers, Jonathan "UNIX is a computer operating system, like Windows, but one which, unlike Windows, is more celebrated than cursed."