[Mel Thompson]

Dedicated a computer to exporing this gread advance forward. Fistly, after a few trists and turns which I didn't understan fully, I accidentally got the sound turned on. That's a good sign because such accidents used to take a heck of a lot longer in Suse. So, therefore, most of the time, and under most players, one way or another, some sound eventually find its way to the speakers.

Solid Flash included and a half-functioning Real Player, a total upgrade from previousl implimentations which I would hate to go into detail about, since the reader is hoping for future happiness at some point. In any case, The sound and media of this version verge on being legit.

Also, (all praise to the gods), can you believe the annoying floppy drive icon simply didn't install by default, (causing me to avoid several days of terminal commands and lessons more impenetrable than James Joyce). I've not tried too much exotic like trying to install software that doens't automatically come with the package. (Let us join our hands in prayer.)

Anyway, this version of Suse, # 11, is at least not absurd at the very beginning. This distro looks like it will take some time before proving the usual and final madness of most distros. Anyway, the install literally was done in my sleep. I just pushed whatever button appealed ot me, spend half the time in other rooms and defaults of all kinds took over and so really I have to credit the thing with just doing the install for me. Not bad.

I think I'm going to keep this as my main distro for a few days and give it a solid chance to disillusion me. It deserves at least that.

I remain,

Free, Not Free, Non-Free. (The Eternal Newbie) Shouts out to the Apt-Get folks in hood. Keep it real RMP studs and Synaptic Package chillaz.

[questio verum]

So... does that mean you like it?

[bigtomrodney]

Joyce isn't impenetrable to Irish readers, Linux is easy to Unix users and both are easily understood by anyone with an open mind and some patience.

[fingal]

Wow. Is this a trollish type thing?

[Mel Thompson]

Well, it's doing multimedia about as well as any of the others. I admit I did Mepis for a while, and it was slightly better at multimedia, but I was never in love with the interface. I always loved the interface of Debian, but always wanted something more in multimedia. I loved Suse a lot, in lots of ways, but there were, up till now, just regular problems with installation of new programs, etc. But this # 11 Distro is so far proving to not only be the most adaptable, but really fun and charming. I find myself looking forward, after many hours on my Mac, to coming in to my other, older computer, and just spending some time on this.

[Manchunian]

But Suse is sooo slow! Whenever I've used it in the past I've got so irritated by it that I've had to give it up. Does it still have those fancy, waste of memory animations, like the cameleon start button changing colour?

[Mel Thompson]

Ah Manchurian, you caught me just as I had another day to become a bit disillusioned, LOL! I'm still really liking it, and slowness has not been such a problem yet. But some irritation finally did set in last night. Easy graphical installs of Scribus and Sea Monkey and all went very nicely. But then I surfed to the web site of an ex-girlfriend/computer geek lady. Then her site rejects my Java. So I go to download the latest Java and install it, but Suse's archive extractor won't come up and the package manager won't recognize the archive. That being said, I've only had that problem with a site or two, and mostly ones I don't use often. So, for now, it's staying on the machine for a few more weeks, until some other distro catches my wandering eye. (My marriages suffered in the same way. My wives were pretty darn good distros, but I kept trying to upgrade.)