[Cumbria] CUMBRIA LUG

[Ken Hough]

Schwuk wrote:

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> Ken Hough wrote:
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>> Am doing a Red Hat re-install NOW. Have you tried SuSE v8 yet?
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> I thought I'd posted about it?
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> I can't find my original post, and can't remember my comments, but...
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> Anyway, tried it. I liked the installer, although failed to see a need 
> for the reboot.

Red Hat also insisted on a beboot.

Ken

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> It couldn't detect my wireless card - essential for me. 

It didn't find my PCMCIA ethrnet card on an old Toshiba laptop either, 
but on the desktop PCs, no problems at all --- including SCSI, ethernet, 
 TV / radio and sound cards..

Ken

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> I don't like KDE - I tried, but it just makes fonder of Gnome. I'm 
> sure other people are the exact opposite... :) 

We agree to differ. That's what makes the world interesting.

Ken

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> The main problem was, I tried on my laptop (not the best test bed 
> really), but I rely on the WifI in that box at home, so I had to 
> switch back to RH 8.0. I do want give SuSE another try, but a few too 
> many things going on at the moment. I might get 8.1 and try that... 
> Also it appears that Gentoo have answered most of my concerns with 
> their 1.4_rc2 release, so that is next on my list to try - my friends 
> ADSL line is being abused as I type :)

ADSL!  -- Lucky ******!

Ken