Upgrade Time Again

[Richard <nospam [at] zen.co.uk>]

Hi

SuSE 6.1 arrived from the Linux Emporium this morning along with my
new SuSE Linux tea mug. I got the impression that John Winters had
run up here from Wallingford on his own two feet to deliver the
package. Much quicker than usual. I spent an hour or two looking
through the new 6.1 manual whilst supping a mug of monkey brew (PG
tips tea). Then I had a look at the SuSE web site. That was when I
realised that 5.3 and 6.0 had been the better distributions. There
are so many updates since 6.1 was released that it looks more like
Windows 98 :-) An update to update the update that updated the last
update. Red Hat 6.0 is suffering a bit with this as well.

My new Linux box uses an AMD K6-2 3D 450 MHz cpu and has a built in
8Mb AGP video chip and sound chip. You might well question wether
the sound chip will work with SuSE 6.1 :-( It's also got 128Mb of
100MHz NVRAM. Very useful for Star Office :-) Then there's the 10Gb
hard drive which is useful for some programming work with all of the
programming tools that come with the SuSE distribution. There's also
extra room for tape drives and CD recorders in the full-tower case.
The Elsa QuickStep 1000pro-PCI ISDN terminal adapter should help out
a bit as well.

All in all it's nothing fancy but it's much better than the 166MHz
mini-tower that I was using. All I have to do now is work out why
the power isn't getting through to the CD-ROM drive and the IBM HD.
Shouldn't take too long to do that. Then I can install Linux :-)
I'll be looking forward to the dark nights of winter this year.

Oh well.... time for another mug of tea. (and what's the cricket
score ?).

Thanks

Richard

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