On Monday 11 December 2006 21:54, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
> Just wanted to say "Hi", and a few other things to.
Hi, and welcome.
> 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.
Which other distros did you try, and why did you stay with Suse?
> Now for the downsides of what I'm having trouble with:
... ok,
> Home networking.
> [Four+ windows computers and my SuSE 10.1 ]
You have my sincere sympathy... I struggled along in that mode for more
than
a couple of years and finally made the clean break... only Linux.... I still
keep an XP partition around for support issues (usually someone in my
extended family) and as a reminder why I'll never use it again.
> 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.
You will probably need to configure Samba... until I made the complete
switch-over I kept archive documents on my XP box and shared them across the
Linux boxes using SMB (works well).
> SaX2
> Should be renamed sUx2.
Whoa, not so fast... SaX2 is actually very impressive... all things
taken
into account. What you will really want to do... one of the things you will
really want to indulge in... seriously... is learning how xorg.conf is setup
and how to make manual changes with either emacs or vim, or some other cool
editor. SaX2 will get you into the ballpark... and much of the time its just
right on the money too... but if you need to do some tweaking... well, you
have control over xorg.conf. (... not going to happen in XP... or, Vi$ta...)
> 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.
heh. me too. I'm forever hitting Ctrl + in Firefox to make the
text
about 1st grade scale... I just quit fighting the problem... had the Doc make
me a pair of reading specs for 27" and then I make those fonts huge... works
very well... being 50+ is so cool... B--)
> Suggestion to whomever
> We just bought a couple new eMachines at
<snip>
half of my boxes are e-machines... they take a little patience (they
are
optimized for windoze) but they do work very well with Suse... (haven't tried
10.2 yet....)
> On the subject of the eMachines
> Stupid damn things have ATI Radion Xpress video cards.
... sounds like its time to build yourself a system... seriously... its
fun,
relatively inexpensive, and you can put whatever hardware you choose in it...
> Why can't the instructions be "SIMPLE". There are people out here that
> aren't geeks, nerds or guru's.
I'd like to take a stab at this... in the spirit of good will and the
advancement of computer science among the masses...
An over-simplified viewpoint finds two kinds of personal computer users
in
general... 1) those who see their system as an appliance (like the phone,
toaster, DVD player, electric toothbrush... you get the idea), and 2) those
who recognize and appreciate that their personal computer is an infinitely
configurable system--- a veritable wonderland of opportunities for adventure,
discovery, conquest, and just plain fun... hence Suse's, "Have lots of fun!"
So, the system needs to satisfy both of those users... Linux does that
very
well, and Suse does it even better than that. See... windoze has the
appliance aspect of the system down... except that the user typically has to
live with application constraints that are less than desireable. Suse Linux
also has the appliance side of things well in hand... but under the covers
the user... (the owner of the system) still has the raw control over anything
and everything they care to learn about. In other words, for them, the system
is still a general purpose computer capable of being transformed "freely"
into whatever our hearts desire.
The instructions will "become" easier for you the longer you work with
them.
Very shortly you will be far enough along the learning curve that things will
start making sense and the instructions will become surprisingly easier...
hang in there and don't give up... it will be a rewarding experience...
really.
> Permissions
> These things are driving me nuts.
Again... stay with it... permissions in *nix are one of the primary
reasons
that Linux does not require anti-virus and spy-sweep software... there are
other reasons too, of course, but the permissions of *nix are beauty babe...
pure beauty.
> Enough of a rant for now.
> I DO like SuSE. After a year+
Excellent.
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M Harris <><
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