Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:23:54 -0800 From: rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> To: "chat@freebsd.org" <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: got rid of Mandrake on my laptop Message-ID: <3C9E0BA9.A8718B84@pythonemproject.com>
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I think I posted a while ago that I had installed Mandrake 8.2 on my laptop to play around with new apps without destroying my beautiful minimalist FreeBSD partition. Well, I dumped it. Almost all of the graphic setup utilities would hang on my Vaio, and I got an arrogant attitude on the mailing lists. "We tested this on at least 2 computers before releasing it". So I forked out the $80 and bought SuSE professional. It is slick and professional. The only hitch was finding the magic kernel param "NOPCMCIA=yes" that allows it to boot on late model Vaio's. The command was in one of the 5 small books you get with the package. I use Windowmaker in FBSD, but I'm kind of having fun playing with Gnome and KDE. For some reason only known to a few, Themes never look on the desktop the way they do on those theme sites :) Rob. -- ----------------------------- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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