[KLUG Advocacy] SuSe 9.3
Bruce Smith
bruce at armintl.com
Thu Apr 21 15:09:08 EDT 2005
> > So I spent the $99 and upgraded to VMware-5 ...
>
> Yep, one company I have no problem sending money to.
Yeah, especially since it's my corporate Mastercard! :-)
> And their prices are very reasonable.
True.
> > I first ran an upgrade from SuSE 9.2 to 9.3. That was a total disaster!
>
> Yea, I NEVER to upgrades; backup data, reinstall, restore data.
I've done a LOT of upgrades. I think it's been getting worse lately.
And now that SuSE comes with almost everything I need in the stock
distro, it's not that bad to reinstall these days.
> > So I ran a fresh install this morning. Things are MUCH better now!
> > My sound even works! :-)
>
> Cool.
I still haven't got streaming video to work. I went to movies.yahoo.com
and rottentomatoes.com and tried to play some movie trailers as a test.
Both sense the Realplayer plugin is installed, but either will play.
Firefox about:plugins says that Real is installed and enabled. I even
tried installing the four optional multimedia packs in online-update,
but it's still not working.
Have you tried it?
> > Did anyone notice that Asterisk comes on SuSE 9.3?
>
> Nope, but cool. Maybe someone can present on a simple Asterisk presentation
> and we can springboard the old driftwood project again.
>
> > And XEN?
>
> Cool, but it doesn't run Windows. :(
It says: "A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of
Xen, but is not available for release due to licence restrictions. "
I wonder how one goes about obtaining the port ...
Or porting a copy yourself ...
(legally of course!) :-)
> But it would be an excellent topic for a presentation.
Yes. If I ever give it a serious look, I'll do that. Or if someone
beats me to it, that's fine too.
That's assuming it runs better than the UML that came on SuSE 9.2!
- BS
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