Just wanted to say "Hi", and a few other things to. I've been seriously trying to use SuSE for about a year, so I'm still VERY much a newbie. I tried a few other distro's before I settled on SuSE. For the most part SuSE does a superb job of setting up.
Now for the downsides of what I'm having trouble with: Home networking. [Four+ windows computers and my SuSE 10.1 ] When I can get the other computers on the network to see the Linux box at all it asks for an access password. I only have two setting on this box. Root and "user" [ me]. Neither will work to give me access. When I try going the other way I get asked for a password. None of the Windows computers have access passwords set. SaX2 Should be renamed sUx2. My first SuSE distro was 9.3 [ had 9.0 for a VERY short time about three years ago or so. ] SaX had a LOT more usability back then than either 10.0 or 10.1. Now you have to use the settings it gives or else. I lost my system Saturday night trying to change the resolution on my monitor. These poor old eyes just ain't up to those super high resolutions. I was having to go to 22 and 24 for font sizes to get them barely big enough to see. Suggestion to whomever We just bought a couple new eMachines at a big box store. They came with, what I consider, THE ultimate backup utility. It will create bootable ISO cd/DVD's of the entire system. It would be nice to have that ability [ especially after Saturday night ]. Don't tell e about "mkisofs".Done looked into that. The instructions look like something translated from Chinese into Japanese then into Greek by a Swahili. I'm a "newbie". I can barely install tar balls. On the subject of the eMachines Stupid damn things have ATI Radion Xpress video cards. I looked and found the "supposed" drivers for it but the instructions were even worse than the mkisofs. Something about standing on your left leg holding your right foot in your left hand and the thumb on your right in your left ear. Guess it will just have to remain a Windows machine for the foreseeable future. I was looking forward to seeing what it would do with SuSE. Why can't the instructions be "SIMPLE". There are people out here that aren't geeks, nerds or guru's. Permissions These things are driving me nuts. I want to use TWPSK hooked up to my ham radion. BUT, I have to have the serial port. UH uh. Can't use that. Don't have permission. I know Linux in general was/is set up to be more or less idiot proof in a user/administrator environment. That's why all this permission stuff. Keep all those fingers from causing to much trouble. BUT, this is a home computer. One user, ME. I use it to make my web pages. Do my e-mail. Surf the web. AND spend way to much money on eBay. I could use a little more simplicity to get things to work here. Enough of a rant for now. I DO like SuSE. After a year+ I would rather use it than Windows. [ XP totally sucks and I can hardly wait to see how bad they screwed up Vista - got a free "upgrade" (?) coming for the eMachine ] I AM learning, but it's slow going. Be damned if I will give up on it. Just ignore my rants. AND, keep your answers simple enough for an idiot to follow. I WILL get there eventually. If I didn't have computers to drive me nuts, I'd have to take up golf. Compaq Presario 2.3 GHz Celeron 512 Meg SuSE 10.1 Dual booted with Windows XP eMachine 3506 3.5 GHz Dual Core Celeron 1 Gig Windows XP only *<[:op [ Don't know if I will use the Vista upgrade or not Wonder what it would bring on eBay. *<[:oD ] -- (o:]>*HUGGLES*<[:o) Billie Walsh The three best words in the English Language: "I LOVE YOU" Pass them on! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
