Re: Going to 9.3

From: Larry Sams (tohoesamsnospam_at_msn.net)
Date: 04/19/05 

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:40:55 -0400

O.K., I am a newbie as well and confused . I too would a copy of 9.3 and I
considered even buying a retail version, however, I would love to test drive
9.3 first. I was told earlier in a news group that the only way to get the
Professional Version od SUSE was to buy it.
<nick.smith@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1113913985.910704.231930@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>I ordered the 9.3 set from Novell and should arrive later this week. I
> just downloaded the Live-DVD (64 bit) to try and it doesn't work for
> me. Tried two different USB Keyboard + Mice sets and neither would
> function. But the login screen sure looks pretty :)
>
> My system is a Sun Microsystems W1100z AMD Opteron workstation. Tried
> the original Sun Type 6 USB keyboard and mouse, and a Logitech wireless
> keyboard + mouse. (Both work fine under all other distro's I've tried
> recently, FC3, FC4, SuSE 9.2, Novell Desktop 9, JDS, Solaris 10,
> FreeBSD 5, Linspire 4.5, Linspire 5.0, Slackware 10.1).
>
> If anybody knows how to get this working let me know. Hopefully it's
> just a Live-DVD problem and the full install will work fine.
>
> BTW: Not 100% positive but looks like (at least for the live dvd) that
> the default login manager is Gnome GDM instead of KDM or XDM.
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> John Phillips wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:17:52 -0500, Charlie wrote:
>>
>> > I encourage you to have fun trying the disto. A lot of Linux users
> get
>> > angry when you don't buy from the manufacturer and I understand
> that
>> > sales are necessary for a company to stay in business. I have
> installed
>> > Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake, Linspire and probably a few others.
> Frankly I
>> > couldn't afford to pay full price for all of them. Suse is a distro
> that I
>> > do support financially. Anyway, I'd encourage you to buy at least
> one
>> > release from Suse to help them if you use the product long term.
>>
>> Good advice. From what I have read here in Australia, Novell may be
> on
>> the brink (pushed along by Big Bad Bill & Micro$haft, of course) and
> need
>> all our help.
>>
>> Any truth in this?
>

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