On Wednesday 22 May 2002 23:17, Leon A. Goldstein wrote: > I am interested in the answer too. At the risk of starting a small bush > fire, I'd suggest cease flagellating yourself > with SuSE and try a nice Debian like Libranet.
The point here is that I dislike almost as much as I do Suse/Mandrake, its still in the last century. The only distro I had great sucess with was Caldera, I even liked LTP, I could and did work with them, hence my interest in dep's suggestion. > Case in point: I dloaded xcdroast alpha 10 and ancillary libs for SuSE > 8.0. They installed OK, but even with the > "no-root" option selected SuSE 8.0 refuses to let me run xcdroast in > user. Now this is a point where I had complete success, always have with xcdroast, where others have not. I have Xcdroast working fine as a user but not recognising the reader. On the otherhand Koncd does see a reader ?? BUT! go into root and set it up, bingo it crashes. > I then dloaded alpha 10 and ancillary libs from Debian.org and installed > it in Libranet 2.0.2. It works fine. > And it recognizes my DVD as a SCSI device. There are other points with the suse/mandrake too in that I have graet difficulty with video streaming progs. I need a combination of programs some work fine in Suse and not in mandrake or vice versa. I retried Caldera recently as 3.1.1 and most of the programs installed fine and dvd was recognised. Updating however was a nightmare and no interest from the company. As I said to dep a while ago it like Sir Lancelot and the Holy Grail, searching for the; what I call perfect distro for me, the others all want to foist on me a set of rules and assumptions. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
