This is just a short note to thank everyone who worked on 10.1 for their efforts, and to let you know of some of the specific improvements over 10.0 I personally very much appreciate. By way of background, my daily driver is an IBM R52 15" laptop with the Intel video chipset. This unit previously dual booted 10.0 and Windows XP. I used the Windows partition to install 10.1 with KDE. Anyone questioning whether it is worth installing 10.1 on similar hardware should have no doubt that they should. There are some very nice enhancements that make things easier for me. In the first instance, 10.0 couldn't handle my laptop's video well. I wound up writing a howto to get the 855resolution package working, along with manually patching the video BIOS, and manually editing xorg.conf just to get a screen as sharp as in Windows. Second, it was a good thing I knew how to use ifup/ifdown with 10.0, because roaming around with this laptop and using the built-in wireless required a lot of commandline work and cutting/pasting of WEP/WPA keys to get things going. So, I'm very pleased (and grateful) that NetworkManager works just as seamlesslessly as the IBM ThinkVantage Access Connections Manager under Windows that stored all my wireless and wired profiles, and automagically selected the correct profile to use wherever I was trying to connect, be it wired or wirelessly. I was also very pleased that the SuSE installer sussed out my 1400x1050 video correctly and configured 855resolution automagically behind the scenes, without any tweaking required on my part. At the risk of being overly critical, the installer configured everything for 96dpi (just like Windows...), so 12pt fonts on my display aren't actually 12pts in true size, but the screen is crisp and the fonts are sharp (much better than the default 1280x1024 under SuSE 10.0), and that's more than good enough for me. And hibernate to disk works right out of the box as well too. Running top right after the install convinced me that all that disk activity was Beagle indexing my hard drive and probably all of the U.S. phone records databases (that's another story...), but now that the indexes are complete things have quieted down considerably. The UI "seems" a little snappier than 10.0. I can't quantify that, and under 10.0 I had upgraded KDE to 3.5.2 from the supplementary tree. I confess I don't fully understand the inner workings of the YOU/SuSEWatcher replacement technology, but I'll get there eventually. I will want to add Packman and a few other non-SuSE repositories in the coming days, but there is no pressure to do this immediately. I did need to run the 101 any-any patch to get VMware Workstation to install, but that's not SuSE's problem. I do miss the GUI front-end to nmap, but the 4.03 GUI rpm from the nmap homepage installed fine. Overall, I haven't been this excited about a SuSE relase since 8.2 and 9.2. It's nice to see the high level of refinement I have historically seen only in the .2 releases appear in a .1 release. THANK YOU!!!!!! All the best, Mark -- _________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business" 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com This email was sent from Reliable Networks of Maine LLC. It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If you suspect that you were not intended to receive it, please delete it and notify us as soon as possible. Thank you.