Re: [luau] News - Impressions of SuSE 8.1

[Joe Linux]

I was just at installfest in Denver and one member of the group tried to 
install SuSE 8.1 on a Duron 700 machine running an Geforce 2 card and a 
M$ optical mouse and SuSE 8.1 locked up very early on. He said he hasn't 
been able to install SuSE on his machine since 7.1.   Even the pros 
there couldn't get it to go and so in the end the guy just gave up.  I 
got a disk there of Knoppix 3.1 which seemed really cool.  Unfortunately 
I have misplaced the disk for the moment so I can't give a report as to 
how it behaves on my particular machine.

by Dennis E. Powell
A new SuSE is always interesting in the way that life-threatening sports are
interesting. It might seem to be going along just fine, but in an instant
disaster can strike.

So it was with the usual wariness that I put Suse 8.1 on a machine here. Nor
was it just any old machine -- it was the one my wife uses. (Hey, you think
I'm crazy enough to put it untested on my machine?)

I'm pleased to report that but for a couple of bumps, it went surprisingly
well.