Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 15:08:42 11/11/02
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On November 11, 2002 at 17:05:51, Tom Likens wrote: >What has your experience with SuSE 8.1 been so far. I'm thinking of >upgrading from 7.1 and was curious what you thought of it. My experience was rather good so far. I bought Suse 8.1 shortly after my new hardware. Before, I had some very old CD from some magazine, and had to update several parts to work with my hardware (makeing the softmodem I had working, wasn't trivial at all - it included editing kernel Makefiles manually and patching other kernel files ...) I did not feel prepared for all this hassle anymore. So I went to a local shop, and left some Euros ... Now, I just installed, and the system worked. I did not try it much. Compiling my engine with the old makefiles worked without problems, and I felt very happy about it. The only problem I had so far: I have a Nvidia graphics card. Some more sophisticated graphics drivers seem only be available by some automatic update procedure. While this update worked for some other packages, it allways failed for the graphics drivers. I did not try often, however. Other than this, I have bin very happy with Suse (but I did not now any other commercial Linux distribution until now). It installed without problems and almost everything I tried, worked. By default, it installs Reiserfs. Something, I perhaps would change now. For ext2 filesystems, read access from Windows is freely available - not for reiserfs as far as I know. Another minor issue: The installation correctly mounted my Windows partition on HD 1. To make merging of my old data to the new computer easier, I installed the old HD in the new comp. The vfat partitions there where automatically mounted - but not the old Linux partitions. Some fast editing of /etc/fstab was needed. Cheers, Dieter
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