Re: Should I dump Suse?

From: Amadeus (nobody_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 20:46:05 -0400

> I suppose I might give it a try. But I am not sure if the version they
> are using at the moment will support my SATA drive and Via K8T800
> chipset. I'll check it out though, I think.
>

RH9 user edition did not support SATA. Not sure about enterprise.
Luckily for me, Fedora Core 1 had just come out, which had SATA
support backported from the 2.6 kernel to 2.4. FC2 just came out
on Tuesday, and I saw some horror stories about recent asus
motherboards, but other posts were very positive, so I don't know
what to tell you about the chip. Why couldn't you just stay with
good old, mainstream Intel? There's a Fedora mailing list, you may
want to check that out if you decide to try Fedora.

I've been using RH since 5.0 for anything from programming to
watching movies, and things have been mostly good, but not without
pain. Probably no different than other distributions. I do subscribe
to the idea that the wm should be obedient, not smart. Nautilus -
the gnome counterpart of konqueror - in its infinite wisdom is also
trying to be helpful, mounting cd's for you and popping up file
managers. When this first happened I saw a number of posts
complaining about this, mostly coming from the experienced users,
who preferred to do things manually, at the prompt. Until someone
discovered some obscure configuration option which disabled that
behavior.

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