SuSE 9.0 install

[Rick Franklin]

Actually, the msttfonts appeared in the first online update during the 
SUSE 9.0 install ... I was just commenting in a fairly imprecise way on 
the slight irony of needing something Microsoft to make my Linux 
experience more complete. ;-)

The download, after all, included one of those "I agree" boxes to check, 
to acknowledge agreement with some Microsoft verbiage.

I will have to give one of the live CD distros you mentioned a whirl 
after the holidays. Linux does tend to provide a few fun mental 
exercises, from time to time. Fun!

Rick

>As far as the Debian learning curve, we have discussed here that you can use one of the LiveCD 
distros like Knoppix, Gnoppix, Morphix or damnsmall to get a Debian.  I didn't have too many 
problems getting to a standard Debian from Morphix and it does a decent installer.
>
>If you want to fix your fonts you can get msttfonts.sf.net.  They are the free MS TTF files.  If 
you have a Debian based system just "apt-get install msttfonts".  At the site there are rpms.
>
>Whatever works for you.  I now understand why everyone raves about apt-get.  I used to use 
Mandrake and the update process sucked.  The interface changed on each release, rather than just 
improve what they had.  And it was a royal pain to figure out what mirror would work best, none of 
the US mirrors seemed to be on the list or work.  Around 8.0 I had to drop Mandrake as it just 
required too many resources for even a basic install w/ KDE.  I don't think this was really KDE's 
fault.  Red Hat has been going the same direction.  Each successive version seemed to suck more RAM 
and CPU.  The Gnome GUI on RH 9.0 was slow and nearly unuseable on a Pent. Pro 200.  At least w/ 
RedHat I was able to add apt-get to update.  Up2date crashed and was nearly unuseable on this 
machine.  I probably should have used the cli version of up2date on that PC, but didn't.  Red Hat 
is going away for me since I found Morphix and its various versions (Gnome, KDE, Game, LightGUI 
(Xfce 4)).  I'm actually!
>  learning stuff like I did w/ Gentoo, but the PC actually works and I don't have to wait for 
everything to compile.  If I were to do Gentoo again I would start from stage 2 or 3.
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>Later,
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>Brian Kelsay
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