[Sderby] SuSE 8.1 first impressions and CF card reader

[David Bottrill]

I think it's certainly better than 8.0, I found 8.0 reasonably stable
and rarely found it would bomb. I have installed a lot of rubbish on my
desktop PC, I will be doing a fresh install of 8.1 on it at the weekend
so I've just being trying it out on the laptop.

SuSE now use GRUB as the bootloader, the same as Mandrake, maybe this
will fix some of your boot problems.

Dave


On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 21:51, Tony Martin wrote:
> 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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