[KLUG Advocacy] New SuSe User

John Bridleman advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Sun, 23 May 2004 15:02:17 -0400


* Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> Well, I've got SuSe installed on two laptops, so here are my
> observations.

I did a desktop....

> 9. GNOME install is pretty good, but has a few holes.  For instance OO
> seems totally unintegrated and isn't even in the GNOME "Office" menu. 
> This is bad enough to seem a bit of a deliberate slight.  And since when
> is Open Office Calc "kcalc"?

I found most of my OO stuff under the the SuSE menu. Seems to work OK for me.

> 12. Java apps, even 'real' ones like dbVisualizer, "just run".

That was cool seeing java just work.

> 16. Your stuck with Rieserfs (Ick!).  Installing onto other filesystems
> didn't seem to work and blew up catastrophically (I tried XFS & JFS).

Ditto for me as well.

The default browser was Epiphany. Pages with embedded Real Player content didn't work. I installed FireFox and they work.

I gotta get Shockwave installed also.
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