Well - I must say that Suse 10 is just about the best linux distro I have used ever. Now - I am no *nix expert, but I have installed a good 1/2 dozen different linux distros over the past few years - and Suse 10 is just great. The only battle I had this time - I have had in the past : Video drivers on a laptop. In the end - It would only give me 800×600 resolution by default. To fix that - I simply needed to boot into run level 3, and tell Sax2 to force a resolution on the vesa driver using the –vesa flag. I expect this kind of stuff from any linux distro on a laptop. I did waste some time trying to do a kernel rebuild with some proprietary ATI driver - but it was not the correct solution.

I was able to get Eclipse with the Ruby and Java environments set up in minutes. My wireless network card (a 3com) that has given me problems with older Redhat, fedora, mandriva, etc distros worked out with ease.

My FAVORITE part was the I could remote desktop from the linux laptop to my main windows machine. Since I often sit on the sofa after my wife and kids to to bed with the laptop - I need to be able to get at all my machines (windows mostly). The remote desktop was top notch, 100% clean. Wonderful. One next step is to sort out a pet Ruby project to do 100% on the linux machine. I also plan on porting a C# AI project I spent some zillions of hours on ported to Java/ linux so I could easily value cluster myself on many linux machines… Aaah clustered AI is lovely.

I also need to get a mono development enviroment fully configured. Plenty of work to do

-Chris

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