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Nedit is missing now from the distro.  :-(

I like its spreadsheet like copy and paste in a text processor.  Best 
wishes,
Dow




Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>John -
>
>Bear with me, as I'm not used to the SuSE way of doing things (anymore) -
>
>Did you have to download and burn ISOs to CD-R?  Is there a way to boot 
>to just one CD and then do the rest from a local NFS/SMB/FTP server or 
>from an Internet source?
>
>I've got my wife's laptop running on Gentoo but things like CDs, Wifi, 
>USB, etc. are not managed well (yes, it's because I haven't explicitly 
>*set them up* to be managed well - an acknowledged Gentoo bugaboo) and I 
>wouldn't mind setting her up with a different distro.
>
>Jeff
>
>Mills, John M. wrote:
>
>  
>>ALErs -
>>
>>Having re-sized my WinNT partition dramatically (40->10Gby), I decided to
>>try Linux installation. I installed SuSe-9.3 from a downloaded CD set ... 
>>
>>Results were even better than I hoped.
>>
>>1) No problem setting up my partitions, including 8GBy as Fat32 for mutual
>>WinXP and Linux use.
>>
>>2) No problem identifying the peripherals in my Fry's house-brand laptop.
>>
>>3) X11 delivers a _better_ display than WinXP on the same machine.
>>
>>4) SuSe and 'linmodem' correctly identified the low-rent, AC'97 codec-based
>>~modem, configured it without complaint, and seem to manage it perfectly!! I
>>expected to fight with this, and only gave myself 50-50 odds of _ever_
>>having it work from Linux!
>>   YIPPEE!
>>
>>5) Dual WinXP/Linux boot setup through GRUB dropped in and works fine.
>>
>>6) When the partitioning and installation were done I re-tried
>>SystemRescueCD and it worked fine. (What's life without the occasional
>>mystery, if it comes out OK at the end?)
>>
>>It's my first SuSe installation; I doubt it will be my last. So far, I'm
>>_definitely_ a happy camper!
>>
>>- Mills
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