SuSe 9.3 / Re: [conspire] s MEPIS 3.3.1 t2 Gnu / Linux

[Edmund J. Biow]

> So, now (after 3 complete re-installs of SuSe, preceded by around 4 of
> CentOS, several of RHEL4, abortive attempts with Ubuntu, FC3, & others) I
> have SuSe 9.3 (kernel 2.6.11.4) working so well on this machine that I'm
> very tempted to start actually using linux :)

Though it is undoubtedly easier to use for many things, these days I
feel slightly unclean when I boot Microsoft.

So how about all the crippled multimedia and mp3 playback that I've read
about in SUSE 9.3?  The KDE desktop is supposed to be quite a bit faster
than previous stripes of SuuuuuuuSE. 

I just yum-upgraded Fedora Core 3 to KDE 3.4 and it seems very
significantly faster and more responsive on my own speed-demon 800 MHz
VIA C3 CPU rig on the $20 Asus OEM i810 chipset motherboard.  

> I'll build another thoughtlessly bleeding edge box (AMD64 instead of Intel
> Hyperthreading SMP)  and hope that I don't have to fight too much to get all
> the fun stuff like PCIEx nVidia/OpenGL (works amazingly well on Internet
> 'tank battle' game) and the now fully funtional ICHR6 southbridge's Realtek
> ACL880 8-channel sound 'card'
> http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/hdaudio.htm
> 
> Prob'ly it'll be a week or two to finish gathering parts; once it's built &
> got 'SuSe Professional 9.3 AMD64' installed on it, I'll bring it around for
> tire-kicking. With any luck I'll have the Promise Supertrak6000 installed &
> functional.

Wow, that sounds nifty.  Announce it to the list before you bring it by.
Seeing what 64-bit Linux can really do on state-of-the-art hardware
might actually propel me out of my comfortable perch in the East Bay to
an Install Festung.