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[Daniel ~]

It certainly requires more care and feeding than I'm willing to give it or ask my friends to provide.

weather they will ever up date so that I can make real use of my investment in it remains to be seen.

[Kaitain]

Originally Posted by GrahamGarside

I've usd the suse 9.1 personel edition and it's great if you want a simple windows replacemnt for office/internet usage. But the problem comes when yo start to want to do some of those things linux is good for. Theres no developement tools (not even make).
I've heard their 64bit version is bad, worse than windows64

They're there on the install discs, but they're not included in the default "base system + graphical + office" setup. The only way to get a fully working system from SuSE is to select manual package selection and select the necessary tools and libraries for yourself.

People with a few months or years of experience can do this with no questions asked. Someone who hasn't touched Linux before? Therein lies the problem.

I haven't managed to get SUSE for 64 bit to install properly on my machine. I'm using ftp installation though - SUSE's ftp install is always a little dicey at the best of times. This is mildly ironic as I've got a rock solid Gentoo for 64 bit installation that takes a little more effort to set up (but not a lot).

Even in the last 6 weeks, Linux for 64 bit (in general) has progressed phenomenally. Using SUSE it's not easy to take advantage of these advancements - one has to wait for packages to be updated, tested and put into the online update tree. This is the disadvantage shared by all package-based distros. Frankly, it's not in their interest to provide a perfect fix, either, when what they really want to sell you is release 9.2

[GrahamGarside]

I've been considering gentoo for a bit, tried it a couple of months back, think it was the first 2004 release and I couldn't get it working, it wanted to download things off the net when I didn't have it.
What other distro's are good for amd64?

[piccoLEW]

i found the culprit for my jumpy gameplay in everything..
the soundcard. I got it a while back when i first started using linux before i gave up, i went into a shop and asked for their cheapest soundcard.. its an X wave 512, ess allegro sound chip.. whatever that is.

I disabled the sound from booting up and when i played homeworld there was no sound, and it was running so smoothly, only no sound

it doesnt run bad with sound, just jumpy and some sounds are not played..

solution:
ordered a creative sound blaster Audigy (refurbished) from their website:
link

[alexkerhead]

[piccoLEW]

its slightly better
i have also been using a gf fx 5200 128mb...
its only got a heatsink on the GPU no other types of cooling..
currently addicted to homeworld havn't actually installed anything else yet with cedega...