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Re: [LUG] Exeter Hospital Radio Fun Day - Helpers needed

 

On Monday 07 July 2008 11:26:43 Viv Griffin wrote:
> David Bell wrote:

> > Have you tried SuSE v11?  Best "works out of the box" desktop distro that
> > I've tried in a decade so far.
>
> Have just ordered an Acer Aspire 2920 - do you think suse v11 would be
> compatible with that ? It comes with vista so, will need to reinstall.

Hello Viv,

Well worth a try.  You will be given the choice of auto or manual install 
which includes laptop packages.  I chose the auto-install and apart from 
selecting to do the partitioning myself, the rest worked like a dream.  The 
YAST package system is very smooth and offers a nice selection of optional 
repositories containing plenty of goodies.  KDE 4 is offered as an 
alternative installation to KDE 3 and Gnome.

I found it to be a very "polished" distro and a refreshing change (ducks!) to 
using Debian and its variants for the past 3 or 4 years. Yes, It's 
propriatory, but the nearest I've seen to a real, no hassle MS replacement.



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