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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hi all!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’m new to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:City>
and am an old Linux hand, if there is such a thing. This started with Redhat
4 circa 1996 working at a mom & pop ISP who got eaten up by Interliant
doing IRIX, some Linux and CGI scripts in C. Then I was really interested when
a college professor said “learn Windows and they change it every 2-3
years, you have to learn it all over. Learn *nix and you have a career
for life.” Started a consulting company at 21, worked for others as
Linux admin, stopped doing that in ’04 to do Java full time. In my
free time, I did embedded linux in grad school and consulting, bringing up an
embedded board on 2.6, some light device driver coding, before moving here from
LA. Now in my free time, I work on my car, do yoga, and figure drawing in
pastel and charcoal.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So I’m also new to SUSE, and my friend Bob Toxen said
to drop a line here and see if Dow Hurst might chime in. My employer is
moving Linux distros to standardize on SUSE. Not having used SUSE since
early 2001, I'm reeling by this mix of Zen, yast, and rug -- bundles, catalogs,
etc. Most of my experience has come from Gentoo and Redhat variants and
know yum and portage well.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Case in point: Dual-head X setup using an onboard Intel
video. I found a forum post saying newer intel drivers would fix my
problem. I see I currently have RandR 1.1 and 1.2 has worked for Intel
cards of mine in the past.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It seems Xorg 6.9 is the latest on the update site.
Googling around, I see an FTP site ftp.suse.com and found /pub/suse/update/10.2
contains a newer Xorg I'd like to try. Telling yast to use it as a
catalog doesn't get me far since all the updates I try cause conflicts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We are moving some production systems from openSUSE to Suse
Enterprise Server, so I'm reluctant to encourage openSUSE for desktops.
Would you suggest using that as a catalog for updates?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I realize that SLED is a "stable" distribution so
they'd rather backport things like kernel updates to reduce the risk of
breaking compatibility. Does that make updating Xorg unrealistic?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>RHEL and CentOS provide other update sites for users who
need more recent packages than are considered "stable" -- does this
exist on SLED?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks, looking forward to the next meeting </span></font><font
size=2 face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>J</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Sorry for this corporate privacy signature ----------v<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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