( waiting for my boxed set to do a full everything and the kitchen sink 
install )

I just put it on an old p3 , just to "see" if it would have any 
problems.. I will be redoing the box anyway , because we are changing 
the MOBO soon, so it will be on an older ( Athlon THunderbird )chip but 
that should be no problem.
It's gone very well, tho I was surprised that xmms wasn't on the dvd 
(download), it's going to be pretty easy to find I suspect. I tried to 
find it to install it after the basic install,  i.e. software 
management--> search--> xmms, and  it didn't appear..  ( and the search 
isn't comcerned w/ capital letters or lower case ones ) It is only an 
oddity, but It made me wonder.


Marcus, love what you & the rest of the *keeping us safe from ourselves 
and others* "team" have done. I still have all my options open, but out 
of the box the darned thing "just works" . Firewall and everything is 
just ticking along w/ no real time involved in tweaking things yet, but 
as smoothly as it's gone so far, I don't anticipate any problems. 

 The one click install really exhits. Defaults for security and 
everything are really tight and even on this older and MUCH slower box 
reboots or just general issues seem much faster. 

I love that Novell has included the mp3 stuff out of the box.. ( now 
please stop whining about that .) I haven't installed stuff to play 
dvds but that isn't something I do in the first days of a new install 
anyway. 

But the fact that little P3 and probably only one  256m memory stick.. 
is "speedy" again, it's at least as fast as when it was new. I'm 
pleased. :)

The one thing I get from folks who sell linux hardware , when I ask them 
to install Suse as my  OS of choice, is red hat et al is much faster.. 
I'm guessing that is ubuntu these days.  We haven't bought any new 
hardware for a couple of years that hasn't been a bare drive or ram.

 We are in the market for a new computer ( at least one,) so I'd 
appreciate if anyone installs 10.3 on things like emachines etc. (yeah, 
some bosses are skinflints on everyones' computers.<sigh>  That is 
unlikely to change til the next generation of users comes along. ) if  
they would post here their thoughts and or issues. 

I know some of you have the lower priced versions of stuff.. 
Thank you to all who worked on this release. 

-- 
j

I've lived in the real world enough, we're all here because we ain't all 
there. 
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