Re: [SLUG] distro recommendations

From: Stew Bottorf (listmail@cypressweb.com)
Date: Thu Jul 19 2007 - 18:48:29 EDT


Are these warm boots or cold boots?
Stew

SOTL wrote:
> On Thursday 19 July 2007 00:04, Richard Smoot wrote:
>
>> I had my wife running OPENSUSE 10.0 and maintaining it for over
>> a year on a Pentium II 350 with 256M of ram. She used Firefox and
>> Thunderbird. She had a KDE desktop. You can use Gnome too.
>> Personally I use KMAIL text mode as probably the most secure mail program.
>> You don't have to install but a small fraction of what is on the 6 CD's you
>> download.
>> OPENSUSE is very prompt with security updates and can be set up on the
>> toolbar to tell you as soon as they are available. It will ask for the root
>> password before it will let you update.
>>
>> Richard Smoot
>>
>
> I have an OpenSuSE setup on one of my computers which also has a Fedora ^
> setup on.
>
> I always shut down the computer when not in use which is most of the time.
>
> If I boot the OpenSuSE system and go on line and then shutdown there is an
> even chance that if I boot OpenSuSE again that I will not be able to go on
> line.
>
> If I boot OpenSuSE followed by Fedora and follow that up with OpenSuSE there
> is no problem.
>
> On the other hand If I boot Fedora followed by Fedora or Mandrake followed by
> Mandrake there is no issue of it going on line.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestion as to what is keeping OpenSuSE from being able
> to boot and go on line followed with booting OpenSuSE and having it go on
> line again?
>
> Thanks
>
> SOTL
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