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    Suse 9.1 LiveCD

    Booted it last night and played with it for an hour.
    In one word: Cool...

    In more than one word:
    My rig:
    Athlon XP 1800+
    1GB ram
    Abit AT7-MAX2 (with onboard VIA lan)
    Hercules Game Theater XP
    Geforce 5600
    3com nic
    Logitech MX500
    Mag DX700T (17")

    It booted from the cd rather quickly into a 1280x1024 desktop at a 60 and something hz, exactly like this one:

    Apaprantly it didn't detect my soundcard, nor my onboard nic.
    I tried running a few games and they went smoothly.
    I didn't have the time for a thorough checking but the first impression is WOW.
    I think it's bye bye redhat and H-e-l-l-o Suse.

    Here are links for more 'serious' reviews of Suse 9: http://www.suse.com/us/private/reviews/index.html

    And an interesting head to head of RedHat ES 3.0 vs. SuSE Server 8.0.
    "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."
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  • #2
    I will probably start my slow win->linux conversion with this distribution, after my last try with suse 7.4 (I think) did not go too well (mostly a lack of time).

    The background maybe similar to winXP, but it is more tasteful imo

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    • #3
      Try Knoppix or Mepis live CDs. I recently used Mepis on a laptop, and it properly detected ALL hardware: Sound, Video, Network, integrated touchpad, external mouse (with all buttons and wheel, IIRC), CD/DVD drive, power controls (fan, shutdown, etc.)...

      I had one problem when installing Mepis to that laptop - the power saving system would turn off the CPU fan, and it would never be re-enabled. I managed to get the install completed with careful use of freeze spray on the CPU heatsink. Once installed (and booted from hard disk), everything worked correctly.

      They are both based on Debian.

      - Steve

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      • #4
        Looks like they simplified some of the KDE stuff. Now it works more like GNOME (well, this could be in KDE 3.2.2, been a while since I booted it up on my Debian install....) What I mean by this is the naming convention of programs. Rather than using the name "Kaffiene" (which I believe is the name of the Video player) they actually just have the menu say "Video Player" In Gnome they have simplified everything that is actually part of the Gnome desktop environment (i.e. Totem says Video Player and Epiphany just says "Web Browser".) Which is WAY better than just going by the names from a user standpoint. Since a new user to the linux desktop is not going to know what Epiphany or Konqueror is... better to just label them as "Web Browser" Though, I wonder how many non-geeks are going to understand that instead of "Favorites" they have "Bookmarks."? I always hated them being called Favorites anyhow....

        Leech
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        • #5
          Originally posted by leech
          I wonder how many non-geeks are going to understand that instead of "Favorites" they have "Bookmarks."? I always hated them being called Favorites anyhow....
          @ work, I have many links to web forms/applications that I test or use for testing bookmarked in IE. I could hardly cal any of these pieces of sh1t my "favorites".
          Funny thing is that my true favorites are actually daily inside my history so I just have to type the first word to get there
          forums ->murc
          os -> osnews
          aces ->aceshardware
          firi -> firingsquad
          nuk -> 8bit theater
          dil -> dilbert
          and a few local sites as well.
          "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."

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          • #6
            That's hilarious! I do the exact same thing. The only pages I bookmark are those that I rarely visit, but have information on them that I may need later. All other sites I just type in the address bar then tab to complete it.

            I also am a slave to reading OSnews.com though... I rarely read the actual articles, I just laugh at some of the comments made by people on there. Especially the trolls, that always kills me...

            Leech
            Wah! Wah!

            In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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            • #7
              So Suse 9.1 LiveCD is bootable like knoppix?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Kooldino
                So Suse 9.1 LiveCD is bootable like knoppix?
                I would imagine so.

                That's the meaning of the term "LiveCD"

                - Steve

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                • #9
                  Gentoo also has a LiveCD. Mini-LiveCDs could be a great way to present and distribute a projects, that is if I had something cool to distribute.
                  Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9, Opteron 170 Denmark 2x2Ghz, 2 GB Corsair XMS, Gigabyte 6600, Gentoo Linux
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