[conspire] Upcoming meeting dates

[Peter Knaggs]

On 10/24/05, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Adrian tried out SUSE Linux 10.0 Eval Edition for i386 (5 CDs), one of
> two successors[1] to SUSE Linux 9.3 Professional Edition, but so far has
> been very unimpressed by its quality control during installation to his
> laptop.

I also tried SuSE 10.0 (RC1 at the time) on
a Toshiba Tecra 9000 laptop, and found it to
still have quite a few of rough edges
compared to SuSE 9.3 on the same machine.

At the time, apt support for 10.0 isn't there
yet, so to get any audio or video would have
involved a lot of building from source, as
SuSE 10.0 seems to be sticking with the
no-multimedia policy.

I intrepidly tried a YOU update, to get
a security update, but the result was a broken
Firefox.

Wireless and software suspend worked,
but not as well as they work in Debian-based
Kanotix 2005_03, which is still what the
laptop feels happiest running.



> Don't be nervous:  If you for some reason are considering RHEL, you probably want CentOS instead:

Indeed. Especially if you want timely
support for things oracle databases tend
to need, like the asmlib kernel module.
The following page provided asmlib for
CentOS more than three months before it was
available for the "real" RHEL4.
http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Oracle/DBA_tips/Oracle10gRAC/Install10gR2RACOnCentOS42/

Peter.