Re: [SLE] Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!

From: C Hamel (vgm2_at_sc2000.net)
Date: 05/31/04

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Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 22:09:51 -0500

    On Sunday 30 May 2004 21:39, BandiPat wrote:
    > On Sunday 30 May 2004 10:27 pm, Fred Miller wrote:
    > > On Sunday May 30 2004 7:16 pm, Jake wrote:
    > > > Your English isn't bad at all and your meaning is (IMHO) quite
    > > > right.
    > >
    > > I talked to someone the other day who'd I told NOT to buy some
    > > odd-ball hardware. They did anyway, and 9.1 won't work with it. He
    > > got mad, formated the drive and installed XP. It locks up tighter
    > > than a crabs *** about every 30 mins. There's NOTHING perfect. Buy
    > > ONLY good solid hardware that keeps to industry specs (example: NO
    > > SIS chipsets!!) and most often you won't have any show stoppers.
    > >
    > > Fred
    >
    > =========
    >
    > Fred,
    > One part of your statement I agree with and that is to get good
    > hardware, it can make all the difference sometimes. PC hardware is
    > still some of the oldest and worse designed stuff around. Everybody
    > has their own standards, so few follow any rules in building things.
    > The no SIS chipsets though, you are way off base! Apparently you have
    > had a bad incident with them some time ago and decided to dislike SiS,
    > but you are wrong not to recommend them now. I have not ever had such
    > good hardware with VIA or Intel as the SiS chipset boards I'm using &
    > recommending now. They have been far & above better operating setups
    > than any Intel or VIA I've installed Linux on, with fewer bugs too.
    > I've had really good luck out of the AMD chipsets also and Linux.
    >
    > Lee
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    > On any other day, that might seem strange...
    Allow me to weigh in on this conversation! :-)

    I can attest to the fact that AMD works really well. I used to have a Toshiba
    notebook w/AMD k6-2 3D chip on it & that one really rocked w/Mandrake, SuSE,
    Red Hat, et. al. This new HP box w/Intel 2.66+/- GB chip & etc., will not
    Mandrake at all, and I have yet to try Red Hat.

    SuSE is problematic but at least I got v9 to work, & 8.2 Personal, before
    that. Version9.1 was more than problematic, it was horrendous. Out of three
    modems --internal & two external-- none worked right, and quit working
    altogether once I applied the first update. Reinstallation was a total waste
    of time, as the first installation --pre-updates-- worked for exactly a week
    & all four subsequent installations saw very little work that had worked on
    the 1st installation. Hence, a landfill now owns it.

    As far as I know, my hardware is not unique. I think that Mdk has six HP
    notebooks listed for compatibility. I checked SuSE's site & was informed my
    hdwe was compatible. One should be able to believe the list published by
    SuSE. If one can't, SuSE is in really deep doo-doo. 

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...CH
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