[Glastonbury] suse license

[peter cole]

Greg, 

If knoppix works ok why don't you do a hrad drive install of it? 
It's what i am running yuo have to be careful if you want to do a OS
wide upgrade, but usng apt is very easy 

You have a shop in just off the high street in Wincanton ? 

Regards 

Peter 

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 11:14, Greg Browne wrote:
> Andy
> Thanks. The answer is clearly to put in a separate graphics card,
> which i will do soon. I still don't understand why, when KNOPPIX and
> SUSE run OK, I cannot modify the DEBIAN settings to get it to run just
> the same - but that will remain a mystery for a while <G>
> 
> Peter, It's good to know there is an expert nearby, thanks. 5 years
> use sounds like an expert to me!
> 
> Tim, I'm very grateful for the 'ALT' tip. It overcame the KMail
> problem, of course.
> 
> Just tried Novell LINUX desktop 9 on a laptop (Compaq P500/128/6.4). I
> cannot see the difference between this and SUSE9, except for badging,
> but I offer the following observations
> 1) It runs quite slow. I thought that LINUX was well suited to older
> computers, but not this distro it seems.
> 2) Although this is just a downloaded evaluation copy, it is covered
> by licence agreements that could be a discussion subject on their own.
> Somehow we all have to pay the bills, and Novell are no different, but
> free software, it is not. It will be coming off this machine very
> soon. However I feel there is a market for this product and, if
> succesful, the work should feed back into the wider LINUX community.
> Now there's a contentious statement?
> 3) It installed very smoothly and even recognised a cheap wireless
> card - no idea how to set up the network, but hardware recognition
> seemed good.
>