[Sderby] SuSE 8.1 first impressions and CF card reader

[Tony Martin]

Hi, how does it compare with 8.0 do you know? I found 8.0 very good as well,
although a little resource hungrey and a bit buggy. In the end I had to
reformat, but it certainly was very impressive.

Cheers
Tony

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bottrill" <david.bottrill@ntlworld.com>
To: "SDerby" <sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:21 PM
Subject: [Sderby] SuSE 8.1 first impressions and CF card reader


> Guys,
>
> You've just gotta go out and buy 8.1 it's b***dy brilliant !!!
>
>
> I've just installed it on the laptop and all my hardware is discovered.
>
> KDE 3.03 looks really smart, the new icons are superb there seems to be
> a lot of thought gone into the functionality of KDE and YAST.
>
> I've also purchased a multi-slot USB memory card reader Compact Flash,
> Smart Media, MMC/SD and Memory Stick. SuSE sees this as 4 separate
> devices so with a slight tweak to FSTAB i've now got 2 icons on my
> desktop 1 for Compact Flash and the other for Smart Media.
>
> If anybody is interested in the card reader I can supply details of
> where I purchased it from, I have a second one, but that is for Mike.
> The manufacturers state it works with Linux, Redhat, Mandrake and SuSE.
>
> I'm very chuffed to say the least :-)
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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