[OFB Cafe] New Laptop... A Report

[Fred A. Miller]

Donald Spoon wrote:
> Fred A. Miller wrote:
>> Donald Spoon wrote:
>>   >SNIP,
>>
>> You'd be fine with openSUSE as well.....11.1 releases in 11 days. You
>> can install it with KDE 4.1.* or under "option" install KDE 3.5.10 if
>> you install from a DVD image.....32 and 64-bit versions will be
>> available.
>>
>>   
> I just d/l and run the SUSE 11 "Live Disc", 64-bit version on my new
> laptop.
> It is not as good as the Kubuntu Live Disc, IMHO.  The desktop looked
> "flat", i.e. no 3-D effects although I chose the KDE version and it had
> about the same layout as Kubuntu's.  I think it was using the same
> version of KDE.  It didn't recognize my wireless chipset nor my built-in
> ethernet so I don't have an internet connection.  The respective modules
> refused to load with a "unrecognized symbol" error.  It runs about the
> same speed as Vista 32-bit here.  I have tried various 64-bit versions
> of Linux and Winders and have never seen the speedup noted by others. 
> It is probably because my uses are NOT very computationally-intensive.
> 
> Overall it was a disappointment... I expected my first exposure to SUSE
> to be better!  I had tried Mandrake, TurboLinux, and Red Hat several
> years ago (many years ago???).  I got to see TurboLinux because my son
> worked as one of their developers for a while.  They all were OK, and I
> especially liked Mandrake, but it was RPM based, which I never could get 
> used to...  I seemed to be in "dependency hell" everytime I tried to
> install an app that wasn't included in the original disc!  That is what
> sent me back to Debian.

No, KUbuntu's KDE is a tad newer. If you want to checkout openSUSE, wait
till around the end of next week, when 11.1 goes GOLD.
Effects in KDE have to be turned on....default is off in most distros.

Fred

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