Re: Suse 10.1 Installed Successfuly.........at last

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:45:29 +0200, David Wright
<david_c_wright@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jonah wrote:

Its been a struggle at times and I appreciate the help from this NG
especially Vahis for his installation guide, which had I read in the
first place would have made life much easier on installation attempts
1 to 4. Suse 10.1 is now up and running and it is pretty good.

I was a bit annoyed at first as I had a lot of problems but it was
worth the effort. The Samba networking is very good, no faffing about
with config files and smb passwd stuff, it just works. No sound
problems, DVDs play as advertised, printers - even network printing
works after some fiddling.

Vast improvement on 10.0........eventually.

I will have a go at the Nvidia drivers tomorrow - that will be fun.

Cheers

Jonah

Well, I worked on the 10.1 Beta and wasn't happy with the quality when it
went live, but then paid project work took over, so I didn't get a chance
to try the release install for a few months (I got my free boxed set for
being a beta tester in June). Towards the middle of July, I took the plunge
and update my Athlon 64 machine. It worked fine first try, everything
worked - apart from DVD's, but I haven't tracked down a 64-bit version of
libdvdcss yet.

All the hardware just worked - even my HP Photosmart multi-function device
just worked; I plugged it in and SUSE told me it had found a printer, do I
want to print, it found a scanner, do I want to scan? Plug in a memory card
and it appears in a window.

The initial update of package manager updates was the only thing that caused
concern, but it worked successfully and then I update everything else,
added Packman and Guru and everything was back up and running in a couple
of hours, migrated my Cyrus IMAP server - 2 days before the hard disk on my
old server went tits-up.com! 8-)

I then migrated my laptop, I installed it whilst watching TV, in the lounge.
SUSE recognised the Centrino chipset, found my WLAN and asked for the
WPA-PSK key, retrieved the updates, jobs a good'un!

After the beta testing and some of the initial horros stories just after the
release, I was a little aprehensive, but it worked flawlessly on my
hardware.

I've been busy over on a computer magazine forum for a while (some of the
old hands here might remember me from the last couple of years, although I
haven't posted in 4-6 months here). I've managed to talk about 8-10 people
through installing SUSE and all of them are happy, some have got rid of
Windows totally, some a dithering. Apart from one guy with a fakeRAID
chipset who just couldn't understand why SUSE/Ubuntu couldn't find and
shrink his Windows RAID 1 set-up, everything went reasonably smoothly.

Hey Dave,

Without your obvious linux experience and know how I used the bang it
in then RTFM method which accounted for most of the problems. Took me
5 attempts to get it right but what the hell as long as I am learning
something. I generally do Linux stuff whilst fixing Windows machines
(the interminable waiting about) so I get paid anyway.

Its very good and I like it enough to seriously consider changing to
Suse, I will put it on another machine as well and see how they play
together on my network. Suse is IMO a lot better than ubuntu which I
tried and the other main contender but I do think between them we are
arriving at a real alternative to MSFT slowly but surely.

8-)

Jonah
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