Hi there everyone, I've been tinkering with linux for a dew months now, at first I tried red hat and openlinux but I couldn't figure out how to get my net connection to work on either. Then I found SuSE 5.3 a few weeks ago, installed it and the net connection worked almost right away. :-) I just used yast to put in the info and then tried the ppp-up script thingy, that didn't work. But then I put all the info into kppp and it works perfectly, in openlinux it would just sit there and hang. I probably didn't configure something right, but hey SuSE made it pretty painless. Anyways, sorry for rambling. I'm happy with my new system, but I still need a word processor on here and my mother in law prefers Netscape 4.5 (its the search in titlebar thing, shes a nerd). Anyways... I was wondering if I should upgrade to v6. I was going to grab it anyway, for staroffice 5 alone. (I borrowed 5.3 from work, installed it and then returned it). Also, when my wife and I are back in Scotland later this year, I'll probably be finding another old Pc and will be putting SuSE 6 on it. I'll be doing a computing science degree and don't wnat to have to spend all the time programming in labs. So I was wondering what people thought of v6... Do you know if staroffice works properly with a canon bjc4000? Netscape will print out on it fine so I know linux itself is happy with it, I had tried the free download of wordperfect but it didn't have a compatible driver and so I couldn't get it to work with our printer. Is staroffice pretty stable? Do you think my system would perform a little better with the new kernel? (not that it performs bad right now, just K is a little sluggish in parts) I have a 66mghz 486 with 2gb hd and 26mb ram. Is the new version of K that comes with v6 noticeably better than the already very cool 5.3 version? Are there any known problems with v6 and ppp, or should it continue working fine? I'm sorry if all of this has been answered already, and if they perhaps seem a little stupid. I'm pretty new at this stuff, and working full time and preparing to move back to Scotland with my wife in a few months doesn't leave a lot of time to research the wealth of info out there. I ramble this way on answering machines too... Oh and thanks to all the people who make SuSE the wonderful distribution it is. Cheers! Dom [sig on its way] == Dominic McDonald-Aveyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sexgoddessjewel.com/HeatherAndDom/ _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
