Hello! I'm new to Linux. While I was waiting to receive my SuSE Linux 6.0 I was playing a little bit with Debian 2.0 I couldn't setup X server for my C&T65550 laptop to get 16bpp. I even tried with Accelerated X server - without success. Instalation with SuSE went smoothly, and SaX configured 16bpp without a problem. Great! I'm really impressed with SuSE product - I think my best software investment in last years. The package is also very nice (CDs & manual) comparing it to many products bought for OS/2 earlier. I'm still in the process of tuning my system, but majority works OK. My HP LaserJet 1100 prints, OK, Fujitsu 640 MB MO drive serves nicely as a backup tool and the GIMP scan nicely with UMAX Astra 1220S connected all with external SCSI CD-ROM with Adaptec 1460 PCMCIA adapter. I don't want to explain you how much trouble and time I had to put this system to work under OS/2. Under SuSE Linux it works out of the box! I was hesitating to jump earlier on Linux thinking that it is too much hacking and now I do not have time like before (playing with Coherent 3.0 in the past). But SuSE is really nice. I have few suggestions. To make things more easier I suggest to automate the process of setting the fonts under X. Many people are coming form the Windows world and especially for those with non-Latin1 needs, there is too much pain. I need Latin-2 support, mainly under X (not in console). There is not so many Latin-2 fonts around but there is plenty 852 (OS/2) or even more 1250 (Windows) TTF. Now I'm trying to setup xfstt (which works), but it's a pain to make it work under Applixware, because it needs AFM files and so much work for fontdir. If someone knows for a solution to convert TTF fonts with 1250 (852) encoding to ISO8859-2, I'd be very thankful. Also, now I've bought SuSE 6.0 and Office 99, but in the future I'd like to have the whole SuSE Linux as well as Office, but not to buy both products, doubling so many things. For me the difference with the Office is just to have registered version of Applixware, everything else is on SuSE Linux 6.0 I suggest you to separately handle the Applixware upgrades, so that Office users can get the whole SuSE package + Applixware. There are still some thoughts, but it's enough for today. Happy newbie Linux, Sasa -------------------------------------------- Sasa Janiska Zagreb, Croatia E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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
