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

 

David Bell wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> Thanks David - I will definitely give SuSE 11 a try - it sounds ideal for the new 
> laptop.


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