external connectivity are through USB, even the external FDD. It works wonderfully under windozZ, but when come to Linux, it can't recongnise

the new hardware detect program announced by Lenz certainly knows all about USB, identifying the ports even when not included in the kernel. Looks promising....... -----Original Message----- From: molnarc@nebsllc.com [SMTP:molnarc@nebsllc.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 4:10 PM To: Dennis Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Linux / Solaris On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Dennis wrote: the

USB (port) printer, and the biggest problem, the ext. USB FDD. :(

USB support is one of my biggest hopes for the new Kernel. I really should grab a copy and try to compile it. It seems more and more products are going to USB. A good thing if you ask me.

It has NoGo for Linux at the moment as the only way is to connect it to network. I tried SuSE 6.2 and Mandrake 7b but can't go anywhere. At the end, Bill won this round for now.

Maybe when the kernel 2.4 is released the problem will vanish.

I fully agreed with you on the 'many' distro and heading everywhere directions. I try some of them (when I have the time, in fact, I am very busy most of the time) but only serious with SuSE, it serve me well so

far,

although there are still lots of problems waiting to be solved.

63,000 bugs in W2K? how many in NT?? If you are going to hear the music anyway, why pay for it? isn't Linux a better choice after all???? take

Well, I play with most of the releases as well. My server (nebsllc.com) runs on RedHat 6.1 and it's been pretty stable, I hate changing that one since if it ain't broke, don't fix it applies. I have most recently been messing with SuSE on my laptops but I really don't see much diffrence between SuSE and Redhat, other than SuSE is an extremely large install (folks don't shoot me for this comment - It took me a long time just to install SuSE!). the

saved money and get yourself some better hardware :)

Again, need to define "better" hardware. Does it have the best features for the money you pay, or does it run Linux? This is a call consumers all over the place are going to have to make in the future. We (the Linux community) need to get with it. I know if most of the people I support have a choice between paying 150-200 dollars for an operating system, or $10.00 for a cdrom with linux they will probably choose the $150-200 route because it supports their newest toys. My users look for: Sound, ease of use, clear video, and standard commands. Desktop apps like word processors, email, and spreadsheets. Also nice are apps such as Quicken (home accounting). These are features missing from the Linux world right now. (please don't tell me about Star Office, it is cumbersome, memory intensive and totally unacceptable for mobile computing). Also, much as we don't like online services such as AOL the fact is it's out there. Until we have an AOL package for Linux we will not be attracting the mainstream crowd. Just my 2 cents worth. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ "WorldSecure Server " made the following annotations on 02/16/00 16:14:35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The opinions expressed within this email represent those of the individual and not necessarily those of Lombard. The contents of this Email may be privileged and are confidential. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee(s), nor copied in any way. If received in error, please advise the sender, then delete from your system. Should you wish to use Email as a mode of communication, Lombard are unable to guarantee the security of Email content outside of our own computer systems. ============================================================================== -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/