[Lancaster] First impressions of SuSE v10.1

[Ken Hough]

Martyn Welch wrote:

>Hi Ken,
>
>You wouldn't be interest in bringing you laptop to the next meeting and doing 
>a quick guided tour around the highlights (and if you can bear it, any low 
>lights) of Suse 10.1 would you? ;-)
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Yes in principal -- if I'm free. When is the next meeting?

The v10.1 installation on my old laptop is very basic. Only a test 
install really and on a spare hard drive. For most purposes  I shall 
probably stick with v9.1 on the laptop, because that incudes the 
'ltmodem' package for the built in Lucent modem device. Recent versions 
do not. I shall need v10.1 to drive my telescope so a dual boot setup 
could be the solution..

Most of my PC time is spent with my Athlon 2200 box, but I'm not too 
keen on transporting that. I intend installing v10.1 on my Athlon 1600 
box, but that might be some time away.

BTW, dispite having Thunderbird and the old Mozilla Mail workimg, I 
still cannot get KMail working. Maybe you could lead me through it some 
time.

Ken

>Martyn
>
>On Wednesday 24 May 2006 10:07, Ken Hough wrote:
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>>I've just updated from SuSE v9.1 to v10.1. This occupies 5 CDs plus an
>>addon CD. First impressions are very favourable indeed. As usual with
>>SuSE, installation was a doddle.
>>
>>Why did I take so long to move from v9.1? Because that worked so well.
>>
>>Am I glad that I updated? YES! There are lots of improvements and
>>additions. Those which I've been particularly struck by so far are:
>>
>>KDE v3.5.1  --- seems to start up quicker than earlier versions.
>>
>>KStars v1.2.0 (part of Kdeedu package) --- with the addition of a newly
>>developed INDI driver for EQ6 (not supplied by SuSE), I have remotely
>>controled my astronomical telescope/mount while looking at a planetarium
>>view of the sky. Fantastic!
>>
>>Gimp v2.2.10 --- more polished than earlier versions. Also included by
>>default are 'dcraw' and 'ufraw' to handle RAW files from digital
>>cameras. 'ufraw' provides a very good UI. This addition alone would have
>>been enough for me to move to SuSE v10.1.
>>
>>And there's lot's more still to explore.
>>
>>I did have a look at Fedora Core 5, but still (perhaps not too
>>surprisingly) prefer Suse v10.1. The only reservation that I have with
>>modern SuSE is that it does really need a sensibly fast PC. It runs well
>>enough on my 800MHz laptop with 384MB of RAM and of course very well on
>>an Athlon 2200 box. The limiting factor is YAST.
>>
>>YAST is IMHO the best and most complete installation and managment tool
>>available and makes for an easy life, but does need a bit of horsepower
>>to run at practical speeds.
>>
>>This message is not intended to restart a distro war, just to serve as
>>an initial review.
>>
>>Ken Hough
>>
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