Re: Linux? Maybe next time

From: Robert Stankowic (pcdoktor_at_netway.at)
Date: 05/22/04 

Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 14:09:39 +0200

"nospan" <yorg@mnaheim.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:xxtrc.723$2H2.289@fe2.columbus.rr.com...
>
> "Peter Tröhlmann" <peter@the-troll.com> wrote in message
> news:wunrc.70780$3B1.49461@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com...
> > Anyway, my fans, I will say goodbye for now. I came back to Linux, tried
> it
> > again, found it has become a little less usable than a year ago, a
little
> > more buggy, and that's a shame. But I've got real work to do, so it's
> > reluctantly back to my stable, secure, handsome XP system, much as I
hate
> > M$.
>
>
> I found the same thing as you have, I came back here to see if anything
> changed and perhaps, buy another version (already tried Redheat, Mandrake,
> caldera) but I guess Linux is still the same piece of undependable *** it
> always was. If I was a chip head with nothing better to do in life, I'd
> stick around and listen to the bull*** but I have much better things to
do
> with M$ XP
>
Yep.
I'd invite all the freaks here to set up SuSe on an elitegroup K7S0 with
onboard sound (AC97), a SIS650 onbord graphics card, and a HSP56MR onboard
modem.

Just to mention a few things:
Starting the installation in normal mode ends up in a black screen, the
graphics adapter is recognized as standard VGA and the appearance at
1024x768 is a mess (obviously using interlaced mode), switching with the
keyboard/monitor/mouse switch to the second machine(WIN2K) causes SuSe to
forget the mouse, graphics card configuration does not start, there is no
driver for the modem available (I am definitely not going to run a complete
compilation session just to get a modem driver up and running, at least not
as long as there are comments in the source code saying something like "No
idea what this .... does, I'll leave it alone for the moment").
Conclusion: The whole thing works (sort of) if you are lucky and have
hardware which by accident matches the requirements of the release you
happen to use. Fiddling around with the system may be fun, but definitely
not, if you have to use it just as a tool, and if a workig hour counts
around $100,-

Well, Guys, I am still willing to give it another try _if_ one of you
specialists can show me a way how I can get the system up and completely
running (I am not talking about firewall, proxy, etc - this is another
story), just the system with all hardware drivers in a maximum of one hour -
that is more time than I need to install an XP or 2K on any computer born
after about 1999.

Anybody?