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E. Hines wrote:
| Just My Opinion, which probably isn't worth much. I've installed 9.2 on two | different laptops and on my experimental machine at home. For me, the | "updated rpm packages fix" was a necessity due to menu problems after I | installed additional programs.
Never had the menu problem myself.
Sound worked out of the box for all 3 | machines, and video cards were detected.
Yep, same here.
The home machine won't run Flash 6, but Flash 5 works fine, and | I'm still trying to iron that problem out. I didn't install Flash on the | laptops, but others on this list say Flash 6 works fine for them.
Flash 6 works fine.
~ Some are | complaining about Realplayer, but it works for me.
This was one of my biggest annoyances about 9.1: Realplayer would not play ball no matter what I did.
~ Kde seems to run faster | in 9.2 on my old 233 experimental box than it did with 9.1, so perhaps some | optimization is in place with the newer kernel.
Yes, prob a tad quicker here too.
~ CUPS has been changed somewhat since 9.1. For | me, I had to do some hunting around to install my networked printer. It | seems to be optimized for business now, and is a bit more complicated for | home use. In the old days it took just choosing the "Printer on Remote CUPS | Server" box, then the server IP and printername, then printer drivers. The | new version isn't quite as intuitive, but I'll get used to it now that I've | done it one time.
Printer installed easily in 9.1 & 9.2, but easier to get at options in 9.2 via CUPS, xpp, kprinter etc (this may be just me getting to know a system better).
~ > There you have it. I wouldn't replace a working 9.1 install with 9.2.
Looks like I'm one of the few that would, then!
It does seem to be a bit of a lottery, installing any distro of Linux. Will your particular combination of hardware work with that distro? If not, can you come up with a solution, usu by the mailing lists/forums? This is OT I know, but I am trying to get Damn Small Linux going on a PII 300 64Mb laptop, or indeed any other live distro, and it ain't happening. Yet I read of others who found it worked on a 486 out of the box!!
Looks like the particular hardware combination I have worked well with 9.2. I couldn't get RH9 going for love nor money, btw.
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