[Sussex] Re: Sussex digest, Vol 1 #331 - 12 msgs

[Paul Bruce]

On Monday 21 April 2003 08:09, sussex-request at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:

When is the next meeting of this group?  I'd like to come along and meet you 
people :-)









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>    1. SuSE 8.2 (David Chapman)
>    2. Knoppix cd & Dvorak keyboard (Phil Slade)
>    3. Re: SuSE 8.2 (Geoff Teale)
>    4. Re: Knoppix cd & Dvorak keyboard (Dominic)
>    5. Salutations! (Alan Fitton)
>    6. Re: Salutations! (Nik Butler)
>    7. Re: Salutations! (Alan Fitton)
>    8. Re: Salutations! (John Crowhurst)
>    9. Re: Salutations! (Geoff Teale)
>   10. Re: Salutations! (Alan Fitton)
>   11. Re: Salutations! (Geoff Teale)
>   12. Re: Salutations! (Steve Dobson)
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> Message: 1
> From: David Chapman <dokterdave at ntlworld.com>
> To: Sussex <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 16:16:54 +0000
> Subject: [Sussex] SuSE 8.2
> Reply-To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Just wondering if anybody has tried SuSE 8.2 yet.
> Their does not seem much  to upgade for. Unless KDE 3.1 and Gnome 2.2 are=
>  that=20
> good.
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> Bill Gates?
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> Message: 2
> From: "Phil Slade" <phil at philslade.uklinux.net>
> To: "New Sussex LUG" <Sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:12:45 +0100
> Subject: [Sussex] Knoppix cd & Dvorak keyboard
> Reply-To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> I'd like to try Knoppix, can anyone copy a cd for me ?. Thus saving an
> interminable download via slowband.
> Does anyone have any experience with the Dvorak keyboard layout, is it
> worth learning?.   regards Phil (Storrington)
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> Message: 3
> From: Geoff Teale <>
> To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] SuSE 8.2
> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:35:25 +0100
> Reply-To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> On Sunday 20 April 2003 5:16 pm, David Chapman wrote:
> > Just wondering if anybody has tried SuSE 8.2 yet.
> > Their does not seem much  to upgade for. Unless KDE 3.1 and Gnome 2.2 are
> > that good.
>
> Well ,they are both very good, but you could retrofit them to 8.1 if you so
> wish.
>
> The answer is that SuSE have put a lot of effort into fixing and improving
> Yast2 and YOU and in generally tidying up and looking more professional in
> order to compete with Red Hat.  I imagine you'd look at Red Hat 9 and think
> hang on, this really is only a tidied up Red Hat 8.0, and you'd be right.
> This is a sign of the maturity of the OS, the outer layers are now changing
> much more slowly and we're moving toward standardisation on a number of
> layers.
>
> Personally I'd hold off and wait for the 2.6 kernel based versions, thats
> where you'll notice some bigger changes.