Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 08:59:02 03/06/05
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On March 06, 2005 at 10:18:18, Peter Skinner wrote: >On March 05, 2005 at 08:17:24, Andrew Williams wrote: > >>I've used SUSE for many years. I bought the boxed set of v9.2 professional and >>the installer on the DVD recognized my AMD64 3200 and installed the 64-bit >>version of the Linux kernel for it. It works fine, but I've had problems getting >>things like DVDs to play, as SUSE doesn't include the correct plugin, and most >>plugins you find on the net are 32-bit. I think you can get a SUSE Live CD from >>the internet and try it out without committing to buying or even installing it >>on your disk. >> >>Andrew > >I last used SuSe 9.1. I found it buggy and extremely slow. Oddly even Mandrake >was faster (which is saying ALOT as Mandrake is more bloated than Windows). > >Do you find 9.2 better? Faster? Are you using GNome or KDE with it? I prefer >fluxbox personally. > >Peter I think I had 9.0 before 9.2. I use KDE. I never really perceive my PC to be slow; it has 1GB of RAM and it always seems fast enough. I also have an iBook with an 800MHz CPU (I'm typing this on it) and that also is fast enough for what I want to do, although PM doesn't like it much. Andrew Andrew
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