[CS-FSLUG] SUSE again

[K. Luckenbaugh]

N. Thompson wrote:

> K. Luckenbaugh wrote:
>
>> Ed Hurst wrote:
>>
>>> kellyarmstrong at prodigy.net wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> I'm currently running SUSE 9.0 and was thinking of upgrading to 
>>>> 9.1. I was wondering if you think it would be worth the effort. The 
>>>> main thing I see is it uses the 2.6 kernel.
>>>> Also I was wondering where konqueror keeps the bookmarks so I could 
>>>> save them if I upgrade.
>>>> In Christ,
>>>>         Kelly Wayne
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kelly, I believe you should not. I have been reading the Usenet group
>>> for SUSE (alt.os.linux.suse) and there are plenty of troubles, with 
>>> many
>>> hardware devices no longer supported properly, especially sound 
>>> chipsets
>>> and USB hardware.
>>>
>>> You can get a precompiled 2.6 kernel for SUSE 9.0, and the latest 
>>> KDE is
>>> always a week or two behind source releases. I don't have links off
>>> hand, but I would feel certain I could find them with Google web or
>>> Google groups.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> I disagree.
>> USB works.
>> Sound works
>> All my hardware works.
>>
>> -Kelly
>>
>
> For what its worth I'm glad you had no trouble with SUSE but I'll have 
> agree with Ed because I've seen personally that USB support in both 
> SUSE 9.0 and 9.1 was problematic as far a USB thumb drives go. I don't 
> know why SUSE isn't concentrating their efforts on fixing that, floppy 
> drives are nearly extinct on modern computers and USB drives and SD 
> cards seem to be the two most likely alternatives to me, I think 
> BIOS's now support using USB thumb drives as boot mediums just like 
> floppy disks and CD's, eventually I imagine smaller distributions will 
> allow you to install them from USB drives.
>
> If you don't have any USB drives to worry about then I imaging you 
> shouldn't have any trouble with SUSE 9.1 as it is a good distribution, 
> I couldn't stick with it myself because all my work is saved on USB 
> thumb drives :-( .
>
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I must have gotten lucky. wooohooo!
-Kelly