[KLUG Advocacy] A quick SuSe 9.3 As A Workstation Review

[Adam Tauno Williams]

Quoting Bruce Smith <bruce at armintl.com>:

> > Install: Flawless,  I had to pick a No ACPI from the SuSe CD boot menu,
> > but after that everything just-worked.  It detected the sound, video,
> > USB, everthing.  Video came up in 1280x1024x24b (rather suprising), and
> > I clicked to enable 3D acceleration - that all just worked.
> 
> I've installed SuSE 9.3 on three workstations so far, and have the same
> general impression as you - it just works.  My workstation at work,
> home, and my old Toshiba laptop.
> 
> My first upgrade from 9.2 to 9.3 was a disaster, so I ran a fresh
> install on the same machine, and every machine after that, with very
> good results.
> 
> I did the install on my Toshiba laptop yesterday because I want to use
> it for this week's presentation.  The install aborted the first two
> times in different places, but finally completed the third time without
> a problem.  I think the first two failures was because the laptop is
> starting to become unstable hardware-wise.  (hence my new powerbook :)
> 
> The only issue was it didn't detect my monitor at home correctly, and I
> had to go into yast and set the correct resolution and freq.  (easy)
> 
> > 	Restore: I copied my files as well
> > as .evolution, .gnome2, .wine, .gnome2_private and the .gconf
> > directories from my laptop before the battery went ka-put.
> 
> Same here, I kept my old home directories on all my workstations.
> And just like you, everything worked when I logged into gnome.
> 
> I had to upgrade VMware to version 5 (which runs fine) because 4.5
> wouldn't compile it's modules under SuSE 9.3.
> 
> I haven't tried beagle yet, but hope to sometime soon.
> 
> BTW, I'd like to see a presentation on WINE running IE6 and WM7.  :-)

http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html

Download
Unpack
Run ./setup
Tell it to use the SuSe'ish C: of $HOME/.wine/drive_c
Wait
Do the Windows click ok.  ok. ok. ok. ok, ok.... thing
Wine now runs IE6 and WM7.

Install Adobe Acrobat for good measure.

Active-X site should now work just fine, it even downloads and installs new
controls when neccesary.

I have no idea HOW or WHY it works, or what it does.  Don't care; and I rarely
use IE, but it is nice to have when you encounter one-of-those-sites.  This will
work on 9.2 as well, it isn't really SuSe specific at all.

The only 'bug' I've seen so far is that sometimes IE alt-tag pop-ups stick
around for awhile, then suddenly go away.  Wierd.