Author: Tom Likens
Date: 07:26:14 11/12/02
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On November 11, 2002 at 18:08:42, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >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 Thanks. I've always been pleased by the amount of software SuSE packages with its distribution. I'll probably give it a try this weekend. You might try this link for your Nvidia drivers. Nvidia also provides the README in German, which is nice. http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_1.0-3123 regards, --tom
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