Sorry for butting in here but I have a question you can probably answer for me. What is a better installation of UNIX for software development and general scientific and math computing? OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Redhat or some other? I am a Windows(ze) 7 user (well, as of 10/22/09) and want to learn Linux (used to be a Unix user). What will be better for me? I am running an AMD Phenom 64 which is a quad core box. Thanks, somuch, in advance. (Alo what is a good IDE?)
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:38 AM, David Mitchell <[email protected]>wrote: > I had a somewhat different experience with OpenSUSE 64 11.1. > > When the hard drive on my Gateway MT6456 notebook died a few months ago, I > replaced it with one twice as large. I configured it as dual boot with > Vista 32 > on 1/2 of the drive and OpenSUSE 64 11.1 on the other 1/2. > > I used the the current NVIDIA support at the time via YAST and it worked > first > time for me after the download and install. > > I don't use the other three features that didn't work for you. > -- > David Mitchell > > Alex Rufon wrote: > > Well, although I got J to work with OpenSUSE on my Lenovo T61 ... I had > to give up on it after reinstalling the OS 3 times and switched to the 64bit > Ubuntu 9. I should have done that in the first place instead of wasting 2 > days. > > > > Here are some of the major problems which made me back away from > OpenSUSE. > > 1. NVIDIA driver installation - your system will refuse to boot > > 2. NTFS write mode support - you really have to jump through hoops just > to write to NTFS partitions > > 3. Support for Wireless USB network - just doesn't work. > > 4. Support for 3G Network - intermittent > > > > When I switch to Ubuntu this morining ... everything worked without even > opening the console. Just relied on wizards for the configuration and no > more problems. > > > > r/Alex > > ________________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On > Behalf Of bill lam [[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 10:24 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] J64 on OpenSUSE 11.1 64bit OS (WAS: RE: [Jbeta] > 602 ebeta available for linux32 and linux64) > > > > nvidia driver is troublesome enough and I gave up. Now I just vesa > > driver. > > > > You are welcome to post a record of how to fix the nvidia driver (may > > be in jchat). > > > > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Alex Rufon wrote: > >> Thanks Bill. > >> > >> I'll just edit the jwd script. Unfortunately, I broke my system > >> after trying to install the NVIDIA driver (which for some reason > >> installed a new broken kernel ... why?). Now X won't start. > >> Grrrrrrrr. > >> > >> I'm going to reinstall and try it again ... if I don't comment on > >> this, everything is fine. ;) > > > > -- > > regards, > > ==================================================== > > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
