Right, after all the negative posts about 9.3 here's my verdict after running the Live DVD for a couple of hours. WOW!!!! It is very nice. It detected both of my printers (HP Laserjet which I expected and the Epson Stylus C84 which I was dubious about, it's a USB only printer), my soundcard works even though it is an onboard Realtek (had problems in the past) and it detected my modem but didn't have the drivers (they are on the full install disks) as it's an Intel 536EP type internal. The interface is very nice and smooth and despite it being a Live DVD lightning fast so I would love to see how the full install goes. So, am I tempted to buy? Would I recommend SuSE 9.3? You blinking well bet I would, it rocks. Well done SuSE/Novell. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
Kevanf1 wrote:
Right, after all the negative posts about 9.3 here's my verdict after running the Live DVD for a couple of hours. WOW!!!! It is very nice. It detected both of my printers (HP Laserjet which I expected and the Epson Stylus C84 which I was dubious about, it's a USB only printer), my soundcard works even though it is an onboard Realtek (had problems in the past) and it detected my modem but didn't have the drivers (they are on the full install disks) as it's an Intel 536EP type internal. The interface is very nice and smooth and despite it being a Live DVD lightning fast so I would love to see how the full install goes. So, am I tempted to buy? Would I recommend SuSE 9.3? You blinking well bet I would, it rocks.
Well done SuSE/Novell.
I did have one problem with USB, cured by a reboot on one box and not on the other, to get USB working, I had to compile in *chi-hcd rather than as modules or manually do an insmod and mount /proc/bus/usb. The first box was a new install, the second an upgrade. Hell, I've hit the odd problem installing Solaris on SPARC also, so 9.3 was no big deal. Mandriva LE 2005 installed on one box flawlessly, gentoo upgrade on another no problem, so sometime soon the Mandrake 10.1 to Mandriva LE 2005 upgrade on the box with same mobo as this 9.3 box + SCSI + Nova-T DVB card, then lastly to tackle upgrading to the latest incarnation of Solaris 10 on the SPARC box wondering if it will switch me back from Gnome to the so bug ugly CDE and the pain of getting Gnome running again. I'll say in general the Linux vendors deliver excellent stuff, pity about the package incompatibilities, hopefully that will in time disappear as rapidly as it appeared. Regards Sid. -- 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
On 5/13/05, Sid Boyce
gentoo upgrade on another no problem, so sometime soon the Mandrake 10.1 to Mandriva LE 2005 upgrade on the box with same mobo as this 9.3 box
I've just upgraded a disk I don't often use. It had Mandrake 10.1 on it I've upgraded it to Mandriva LE 2005 My god it's slooooooow. It took ages to install and just logging in takes nearly an hour. Now this is due to the PC I have tried to install on being way too old and low spec'd to actually run it properly (AMD K-2 500 with 256mb of RAM on a 6.4gb drive witha 64mb NVidia graphics card) but my point is..... 9.2 runs on it fine. Full set up too. It doesn't take much to see why I usually use SuSE :-) Kubuntu and Ubuntu run ok on it too by they are both very much lighter any way. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
Kevanf1 wrote:
On 5/13/05, Sid Boyce
wrote: Mandriva LE 2005 installed on one box flawlessly, gentoo upgrade on another no problem, so sometime soon the Mandrake 10.1 to Mandriva LE 2005 upgrade on the box with same mobo as this 9.3 box
I've just upgraded a disk I don't often use. It had Mandrake 10.1 on it I've upgraded it to Mandriva LE 2005 My god it's slooooooow. It took ages to install and just logging in takes nearly an hour. Now this is due to the PC I have tried to install on being way too old and low spec'd to actually run it properly (AMD K-2 500 with 256mb of RAM on a 6.4gb drive witha 64mb NVidia graphics card) but my point is..... 9.2 runs on it fine. Full set up too. It doesn't take much to see why I usually use SuSE :-) Kubuntu and Ubuntu run ok on it too by they are both very much lighter any way.
Have a look with "top" and see what is hogging CPU or memory resources as that's not right. Regards Sid. -- 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
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