Thank you Robin and Jason. Did you upgrade or do clean installs? The reason
I'm asking is that I have everything the way I want it in 8.2, except my ACPI
doesn't work well on the laptop. If upgrading fixed your laptop ACPI
problem, without trashing your existing downloaded apps and settings, that
would be good news for me! But I can take the bad news... -Eric
On Saturday 25 October 2003 07:20 am, you wrote:
> Eric Jahn wrote:
> >BTW is Suse 9 worth upgrading from 8.2?
>
> Yes.
>
> I got a review copy of 9.0 Pro two weeks ago, finally got a chance to
> install it yesterday. Prettier, cleaner, YAST integrated better with
> KDE, smoother install routines -- and my Winmodem works without any
> finagling or CLI work, right out of the box. ACPI is also fully
> operative on my Toshiba laptop without any additional work. Very nice!
>
> Since the version I have is pre-release, I hope the following two
> problems are solved in the version they start shipping soon:
>
> - "My network neighborhood" (SMB) segfaults every time I try to open it.
> - Parallel port not detected at all, so no printing on my sturdy HP 940c
>
> These are the only bugs I've spotted so far.
>
> I have a couple of quarrels with their default software choices, but
> that's personal preference more than anything else, i.e. the lack of
> Mozilla email (which is great from 1.2 on, and SuSE 9 has 1.4) in favor
> of KMail, which I have never liked very much. But this is no big deal.
> The software I prefer is all there, and YAST makes it easy-as-Windows to
> install (and as long as you stick to SuSE "official" packages, of
> course, you will never have a dependency problem).
>
> Overall, I am very happy with SuSE 9. I'm sure I'll be able to solve the
> parallel port problem with a little help from Smart People as soon as I
> have time to mess with it.
>
> - Robin
>
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