who has SuSE 8?

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on April 24, J. Allen Crider managed to emit:
> I received it yesterday, and I must say that I am very disappointed so 
> far.  After two unsuccessful installations, I have gone back to COL WS 
> 3.1.1 for now.  I may give it another try if I can find any ideas on why 
> my first attempts failed, but not before the weekend now.

Bummer, dude. 

> My system has a 1GHz Athlon processor on a Tyan motherboard with 768MB 
> RAM, ATI Radeon AGP graphics card, 3 IDE hard drives and an IDE DVD 
> drive, BusLogic and Adaptec SCSI adapters, etc., and everything works 
> with COL.

Nice toy. Gotta get me one of them...

> For my first attempt with SuSE 8, I selected a lot of the included 
> software packages, totalling approximately 6 GB.  Other than the fact 
> that it took several hours to select the software and install it, the 
> install seemed to go OK, and I was able to configure the printers and 
> DHCP (for my cable modem) without any trouble.  The problems began with 
> configuring X.  At my preferred setting of 1600x1200, 24-bit color, 75 
> Hz, the display was very dark and the colors were incorrect.  After 

[more tales of woe]

I suspect a misconfigured X server - Radeon support is still being
worked out, if the traffic on the Xpert and Newbie XFree86 mailing
lists is any indication.

> I tried a second install this evening, installing a much smaller 
> selection of software packages, but I got the same results, and after a 
> couple of reboots, I blew it away and reinstalled COL.
> 
> I was really hoping for a distribution with more up-to-date software 
> than COL, and I especially wanted KDE 3 and GNOME so that I could try 
> some other programs I've been wanting to experiment with, but SuSE 8 
> still needs some work based on my experience to be a suitable 
> replacement for COL.

Hmm. Wonder if I got lucky with the beta? It was running fine on my
laptop.

Kurt
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