[Lancaster] Freespire impressions

[Ken Hough]

John Scott wrote:

> That is interesting. I am running an IBM T22 notebook, and I got a 
> decent X server first time around, also it correctly configured my 
> dual boot. The only issue I had when installing, was a known problem 
> with partitioning some disks, where the partitioner would not let me 
> resize my disk. I used a suse install disk in rescue mode to do the 
> partitioning, and everything else was cool. I am not using wifi yet, 
> so will feed back on that when I try it.
>
> My personal preference is Suse, but on this hardware, it just doesnt 
> run well. When I get more memory, the first thing I am going to do is 
> install Suse 10.1 (or 10.2 if its released by then) as my primary 
> operating system.

I dissagree! I have a T21 and SuSE v10.1 runs just fine (as I mentioned 
in a previous posting which doesn't seem to have come through yet). My 
machine does have 384MB of RAM. SuSE will be sluggish on much less then 
this.

Ken Hough