Have you been to the Suse site www.suse.com or www.suse.de/en/ you should be able to download test kernel's and modules from their site, with any How-To's, If not WINE will be supported, Gimp would cover your Graphics Manipulation and StarOffice or Wordperfect would cover the publishing side. Is there a specific application you wish to run under Linux. Happy New Year Kerin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Cook" idiamin@idiamin.plus.com To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 1:17 AM Subject: [Alug] Introduction
I apologies for flooding your e-mail but I would like to introduce myself
as
a new member. My real name is Tony Cook, I adopted the internet handle of idiamin because the late entirely unlamented gentleman was the only
person
I ever heard of who was without doubt more self centered, egotistical
and
a bigger idiot to boot, than I.
My computer set up is a Gigabyte AT board carrying an AMD K6/2 500 CPU
with
a SoundBlaster 128 and a Voodoo 3 graphics card and I have 128M/B of ram plugged in at the moment while my H/D is a 20GB unit which seemed enormous when I bought it but which is now beginning to be a little confining.
I currently dual boot Win98 and Linux. Win98, with which I am reasonably familiar because it gives me access to a cheap parallel port scanner, if anyone knows or hears of a scsi emulation which will allow Sane to
co-exist
with it please let me know together with games, mostly old, which are
either
not available or comparatively cost a lotty under Linux.
For the future however I plan to migrate my more serious interests, D.T.P. and graphics manipulation to Linux with the impact of adapting to new software being lessened by loading Win4Lin from Trelos. As far as Linux
is
concerned I am a complete newbie and to be frank I find getting used to it to be a bit challenging. My home computing background originated with CPM and the Spectrum, progressed to the Amiga and dos in emulation and then to Win95 native on a PC. At the moment I am still fumbling my way around the Linux CLI structure and trying to forget I ever knew dos.
I have tried several Linux distro`s, Mandrake 7.1, Red Hat 7.0 and Suse
7.0
before finally determining on Suse 7 Pro as my system of choice largely
due
to the excellent documentation available and the, (Comparatively easy and reliable installation). I nearly threw a rock through my monitor when grappling with Red Hat, and Mandrake though initially very good revealed bugs in operation with which at my current level of experience I could not resolve.
The only specific problem I currently have centres around Win4Lin for
which
there is currently no specific Kernal is yet available for Suse 7.0
although
6.4 is supported. I gather from Trelos that support for 7.0 is in the pipeline however. Incidentally support is currently available for both
the
other distro`s I have. According to the manual, which I have read, there
is
very little change between 6.4 and 7.0 apart that is from the compiled modules which are of course not interchangeable. If anyone were in a position to supply me with an evaluation copy of the basic Suse 6.4 system
I
should be very greatful as I believe I could then overlay the 2.2.16
modules
with the 2.2.14 set and thus get Win4Lin running correctly and interconnecting with my system components, noteably my printer and soundcard.
Best regards, compliments of the season and apologies for rattling on,
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