From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 24 9:27: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail19b.rapidsite.net (mail19b.rapidsite.net [161.58.134.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DAE037B404 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:27:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from 198.104.176.109 (198.104.176.109) by mail19b.rapidsite.net (RS ver 1.0.60s) with SMTP id 0135063507 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:32:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C9E0BA9.A8718B84@pythonemproject.com> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:23:54 -0800 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: got rid of Mandrake on my laptop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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