[CS-FSLUG] SUSE 9.1 and Final exams

[N.Thompson]

On June 7, 2004 02:42 am, Jukka Y wrote:
> On Sunday 06 June 2004 22:19, N. Thompson wrote:
>  [snip]
>
> > I'd like to follow up on that a little, I just finished booting and (with
> > nothing else running) I launched KMail for the first time since having
> > booted, when I started it up the mouse cursor started skipping frames and
> > the system was obviously having trouble. The mouse also did likewise when
> > I closed KMail. I find that the bogging down of the system is very severe
> > as in Mandrake Linux I can run a lot of applications and not have any
> > noticeable lag at all.
> >
> > BTW Skipping frames doesn't strike me as that severe as long as the sound
> > isn't skipping as well although admittedly it *shouldn't* be happening
> > and it likely is a nuisance.
>
> Sorry that my comment took so long - I didn't notice your post last evening
> and couldn't answer until now.
>
> The problems you described with KMail and other programs sound weird for
> me?? I have never had them and because of that I feel that our problems
> with YaST were caused by different reasons (mine is probably related to
> small processing power). You should visit suse-users irc-channel (I know
> one is located in freenode.net) or check some of their mailing list,
> because you can ask help only from other users if you have done free
> ftp-installation. If your problems are not related your configuration or
> hardware, there *must* be also others who have noticed the same. You may of
> course get some tips even if your problems are
> configuration/hardware-related.

Thats probably the better of my two current options, the e-mail I got back 
from Novell told me to call a number to talk to SUSE support, I tend to 
studder and hesitate when I'm on the phone so I preffer to talk over e-mail 
as its more convenient for both me and the support people.

> [snip]
>
> > > I have done similar calculations too and I wish someone in my work
> > > could see/take them seriously - they are upgrading computer system next
> > > week and linux was accepted only as a server. I asked if I could have
> > > Linux at least for myself but it was not possible. Maybe someday.
> >
> > Thats unfortunate, I am hoping that if I get a job in which I need to use
> > a computer that I can use Linux myself. If I were in your situation I
> > would purchase a notebook computer and do all my work on that instead. I
> > already have plans to save up for one if I get the job at Future Shop or
> > somewhere else this summer, I hope to find some work I can handle and
> > would appreciate some prayer support :-) .
>
> I hope and pray that you can find work for this summer!
>
> Blessings,
> Jukka

Thanks :-)

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