[Sderby] Hello fellow Derbyshire Linux fans!

[Graham Hamblin]

Hiyer Boris

Well my new Dell box came a couple of weeks ago with the compulsory 
Windows installed.   Windows went within the first half hour and since 
I have tried Slackware, Mandrake, SuSE 8.2 and Fedora Core 1(RedHat) 
and am now waiting for SuSE 9.1 to drop through the letterbox.

The only problem I have had is a few detection problems, it being a new 
box and old software.   The latest software I had was Fedora Core and 
that coped with eeverything except the modem which is an Intel 537EP 
V.92, it even identified the monitor which I got going with earlier 
systems by fiddling the parameters.

So if you don't have a new box I would not envisage a problem with SuSE.
I am using an external modem for the moment, until SuSE 9.1 arrives and 
if that does not drive the internal one the drivers are avilable for 
Linux on the Intel site.

Best of luck, I have used Linux and FreeBSD for around 10 years and am 
not tempted to even try Windows.   My box runs continually without any 
problems.   Never crashed and never had a virus!

Regards
Graham hamblin

On Sunday 23 May 2004 16:44, Iain 'Boris' Lomas wrote:
> Hello all,
> NEWBIE alert!
> Ive just smashed the windows out of my PC and installed SuSE 9.0,
> I'll probably mess things up, so I thought I'd join you and pick your
> collective brains :)
> As a newbie is there anything you think I need to know? Please feel
> free to send me links to interesting & useful linux articles.  No
> spam please! Thanks all, looking forward to my new open source life
> Best regards
>
> Iain