[SuSE Linux] 1st Impressions of 5.3
Hi, I got my 5.3 yesterday and I'm sorry to say that my 1st impressions are rather disappointing. Previously I've done many slackware installations and a few RedHat ones too, and of all the installation tools YaST has to me the most counter intuative and hard to use of the lot. Sax was a total disaster, until I went in to expert mode for the card and set all the parameters manually. It was a good job I still have the slackware partition still intact as I had to go back to that to get suitable modelines as Sax's XF86config totally failed to produce anything on my monitor. The PPP setup led me up the garden path until I resorted in going and reading some to the Suse scripts to see what it was trying to do.... The manual was misleading in a few places. An I still have not managed to connect to my ISP. For some reason the CHAP authentication is failing, and I've even copied my slackware chap-secrests file to ensure I didn't mistype anything. Oh and when you try to build a kernel, after completing the "make xconfig" step, a window full of german menu selections appears :-)) So much for an "english" distribution..... An how do I get to see what is happening during the build??? I had to stop it and do a manual make dep ; make clean ; make etc etc inorder to see what is going on. So far yast has got a 5/10 Must try harder.... But KDE gets a gold star , it's way cool !!!! I'll keep trying as I want to get SuSE working. Peter Onion ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Peter Onion <ponion@srd.bt.co.uk> Date: 28-Aug-98 Time: 09:48:14 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, you wrote:
Hi,
I got my 5.3 yesterday and I'm sorry to say that my 1st impressions are rather disappointing.
Previously I've done many slackware installations and a few RedHat ones too, and of all the installation tools YaST has to me the most counter intuative and hard to use of the lot. I haven't tried 5.3 yet... but I've always felt that yast leaves a lot to be desired
Sax was a total disaster, until I went in to expert mode for the card and set all the parameters manually. It was a good job I still have the slackware partition still intact as I had to go back to that to get suitable modelines as Sax's XF86config totally failed to produce anything on my monitor.
The PPP setup led me up the garden path until I resorted in going and reading some to the Suse scripts to see what it was trying to do.... The manual was misleading in a few places. An I still have not managed to connect to my ISP. For some reason the CHAP authentication is failing, and I've even copied my slackware chap-secrests file to ensure I didn't mistype anything. Why don't you just connect with Kppp? That's what I do. It can be setup in 5minutes (I timed it:)
Oh and when you try to build a kernel, after completing the "make xconfig" step, a window full of german menu selections appears :-)) So much for an "english" distribution..... An how do I get to see what is happening during the build??? I had to stop it and do a manual make dep ; make clean ; make etc etc inorder to see what is going on.
So far yast has got a 5/10 Must
it's way cool !!!! I upgraded to KDE 1.0 a few weeks ago... It is cool. Though the filemanager is
Ahhh! I'm so happy that I'm not alone on this! Apprently they still haven't fixed this... I've got the same window in 5.2 try harder.... But KDE gets a gold star , pretty buggy when you use it as a browser. Harry
I'll keep trying as I want to get SuSE working.
Peter Onion
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RiMez wrote: [snip]
The PPP setup led me up the garden path until I resorted in going and reading some to the Suse scripts to see what it was trying to do.... The manual was misleading in a few places. An I still have not managed to connect to my ISP. For some reason the CHAP authentication is failing, and I've even copied my slackware chap-secrests file to ensure I didn't mistype anything. Why don't you just connect with Kppp? That's what I do. It can be setup in 5minutes (I timed it:)
[snip] Really?! What scripts do you have to manually edit to get it to work? Just using Kppp doesn't work here. Fred -- - Windows 98 supports real multitasking - it can boot and crash simultaneously - Fred A. Miller, Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fmiller@lightlink.com fm@cupserv.org - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Peter Onion wrote:
Hi, <snip>
Thanx for sharing your thoughts. I haven't heard hide nor hair as of yet in terms of having it knock on my door and still waiting for that FedEx slip. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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