From: Mike '/m' 

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:43:10 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>
>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:tav9021a97jpjunksg9q66pqi6fbvoibl7{at}4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:43:48 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>> I think the blog author got into trouble when he copied
his XP virtual
>>>> application from an AMD laptop to a Pentium laptop. That's
when he got
>>>> bit
>>>> by the processor ID change and subsequent XP activation
>>>
>>>Most likely.
>>>
>>>> Others - the 'community' virtual appliances -  have
problems - KDE on
>>>> SUSE
>>>> ( no sound ) and ReactOS 0.29 ( really bad alpha version
of a windows
>>>> one  ), Syllable ( no network,  0.6 release that needs work  )
>>>
>>>Sound is one of the hardest things to configure on Linux. :( (right next
>>>to
>>>video if you have anything fancy)
>>>
>>>ReactOS is pretty useless from what I've seen of it.  Never heard of
>>>Syllable.
>>>
>>>I've heard good things about Ubuntu lately...
>>
>> I've been keeping an eye on SUSE.  I tried an early beta of the next
>> release (10.1?) and it looks pretty clean.
>>
>> /m
>
>When SUSE has worked for me it's worked quite well. Unfortunately for me
>that's only about every other release. How they can f**k up the hardware
>detection from each .x release still baffles me. The virtual application
>that Novel offered ( SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 ) did not impress me (
>errors initializing, video and network problems ). The Ubuntu VMware virtual
>application blew it out of the water.
>

I've been playing with SUSE in the desktop arena, not the enterprise arena,
and it has been quite fine for what I've needed of it.



 /m

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