RE: [Eug-lug]RH8 and X-configuration and war

2002-11-21 Thread Edward Craig
A company wants to make money from software users. Free software originated in education, thus wants to make developers of software users. Sometimes the two goals are not incompatable. SuSE gets significant mileage among Free Software users for its GPL'd contributions to

Re: [Eug-lug]RH8

2002-11-19 Thread Larry Price
I don't know; maybe it's the stress, or perhaps a desire to see how the other half lives, but I got my hands on a boxed copy of SUSE 8.1 professional (and no I didn't pay full retail, that hasn't changed ;-) and installed it this morning. Slick Graphical installer, but still managed to bork the

Re: [Eug-lug]RH8

2002-11-19 Thread Linux Rocks !
Suse has sax (GUI X config tool, its nice try it!) Jamie On Tuesday 19 November 2002 10:16 am, Larry Price wrote: : I don't know; maybe it's the stress, or perhaps a desire to see how the : other half lives, but I got my hands on a boxed copy of SUSE 8.1 : professional (and no I didn't pay full

Re: [Eug-lug]RH8

2002-11-19 Thread Linux Rocks !
Oh... I forgot to also mention that SuSE comes on DVD also, (complete single disc install). Jamie On Tuesday 19 November 2002 11:59 am, Linux Rocks ! wrote: : Suse has sax (GUI X config tool, its nice try it!) : : Jamie : : On Tuesday 19 November 2002 10:16 am, Larry Price wrote: : : I don't

RE: [Eug-lug]RH8 and X-configuration

2002-11-19 Thread Dexter Graphic
to make it work then we all benefit? Why aren't these guys sharing? Dexter From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Linux Rocks ! Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Eug-lug]RH8 Suse has sax (GUI X config tool, its nice try

Re: [Eug-lug]RH8

2002-11-19 Thread Bob Miller
Larry Price wrote: Slick Graphical installer, but still managed to bork the X-configuration step (i'm beginning to think I'm cursesed in this respect) so back to Modeline futzing and googling monitor descriptions. More likely your video card/chip is cursed. What is it? I have uniformly good

Re: [Eug-lug]RH8

2002-11-19 Thread Larry Price
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Bob Miller wrote: Larry Price wrote: Slick Graphical installer, but still managed to bork the X-configuration step (i'm beginning to think I'm cursesed in this respect) so back to Modeline futzing and googling monitor descriptions. More likely your video card/chip

RE: [Eug-lug]RH8 and X-configuration

2002-11-19 Thread Mike O
If they all shared then none of them could claim they were better than the other or had slicker features. That's half the fun of distro wars. --- Dexter Graphic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Between Red Hat, Mandrake, SUSE, Debian, and all the rest, you'd figure that they could get the hardware

Re: [Eug-lug]RH8

2002-11-19 Thread Ben Barrett
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:41, Larry Price wrote: Here's what I've found regarding this at Monitorworld.com _ Model: PRESARIO 1410 Max Resolution: 1024 x 768 Sync Type: Unknown H Freq/ V

Re: [Eug-lug]RH8

2002-11-18 Thread Mike O
Wait a minute. That can't be right. Larry, you want RH8? A poweruser like yourself wouldn't rather have Slack 8.1 for a current distro? I'm telling you man, 8.0 is sickening. I'd go for for 7.3 first :) --- Larry Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOOoo, can I get one, I've been having this