--- Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hello All,
Hi Rony
Suse 10 from LFY was tried out. Overall, it is a little disappointing considering that SuSe is generally recommended for desktop usage. This was my first trial of the SuSe distro for a desktop.
I too got suse 10.0 OSS from LFY this month and installed it.
During installation, its manual partition utility could not detect free unpartitioned space in my hdd and I had to reboot into FC4, my current OS to create a new partition in the free space using fdisk. Then this partition was selected in the SuSe installer.
Even I had the same problem that suse didn't detect my free space and asked to overwrite my slackware partition. But, then I used advanced partitioning option and selected new partitions to be made manually.
Device detection was good with sound and graphics working fine.
It did detect everything perfectly for me except it exceeded my monitor's refresh rate.
However it could not mount CDs in my DVD ROM as well as CD R/W so media players could not be tested. A
very >big problem. It detects my cd's and dvd's as soon as i insert them and asks for the task to be performed even for cd's in my combo drive.
Another important facility that is lacking is a proper gui dialup tool like kppp in kde or anything else in gnome. There was a novell dialup tool found after a lot of hunting in the packages selection list but that does not work even in root login.
Hello u seemed to have overlooked kpp does exist. You can find it in applications->internet->dial up->kppp. Though I haven't tried it out as I don't need it.
Otherwise, for ethernet usage this distro appears to have a lot of stuff packed in and its packages selection list in the dvd looks pretty impressive. FC4 may not be very impressive but at lest it gets its basic stuff working pretty well.
Its got a large no. of softwares and a great variety too for all kinds of users. I was really impressed by it. For me its the first linux distro that almost worked out of the box. Except for the monitor refresh rate problem I've had no problem whatsoever.
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