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Old 12-05-2005, 07:23 AM   #1
selpra
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Exclamation some basic doubts in installation of suse 9.1


Friends,

I've installed suse 9.1 linux(32 bit version) on my computer which is AMD 64 bit,Athlon, 80GB memory with Asus motherboard. I was using fedora core 3. I've been advised by some of my friends to move to suse...


Doubts

1. Will there be any problem while installing any new softwares like scilab, matlab, or kile..etc...
2. Can i make mplayer work? How?
3. Will there be any patches problem?
4. What are advantages i get in suse which i cant get in fedora?


I'd be grateful if my doubts are clarified...

selva
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Old 12-05-2005, 08:40 AM   #2
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1) Should be fine - will probably find SuSE packages available for them. Compiling from source can be a tad difficult under SuSE until you have the development tools installed.

2) Yup, search the forums on here for extra info on configuring different media formats to work, such as .wmv and video DVD's.

3) Will all run through YaST on-line update tool, but bear in bind 9.1 is a little out of date now and patches likely to cease within the next 6-12 months (SuSE usually maintain the previous 5 releases of their distros)

4) Different management tools and graphical controls are the only main differences, otherwise very similar. They have slightly different ways of handling runlevels, updates and hardware configuration from a command line, but not much. YaST is a very comprehensive control center
 
  


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