Ok I'm switching from Red Hat 9.0 to Suse 10.0 and I have run ino a few issues.

one the partition manager blows. I wanted to make a 1 gig swap drive and found it increadably hard to do after deleting one partition adding another back etc I was still unable to get my 1 gig swap, I could easily get a 500 meg or 1.5 gig swap but no 1 gig! This is due to the lack of adjustability..

Ended up just going with defaults...

next issue was that SuSe does not properly detect my video card. it's an old ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV and it is detected as an ATI Rage II (which is the base chipset my card uses) It should work only I believe it will be crippled to 4 meg instead of 8 meg, but good enough for what I'm doing with this PC...Red Hat had NO issues here.

After the Instalation however there is a TON of artifacts all over the screen, and not only is there artifacts (lines) but they move all over the place. Changing the resolution helped but still creates artifacts when I am moving windows around, HD is loading etc. (this does not happen in windows with exact same PC). I cannt find a way to change teh video card selection. it appears you msut accept what it is detected as which is incorrect!

Next problem is my NIC card, it does not work either.. It was detected durring install but it was not hooked to the network yet. Now I'm trying to find out how to assign the PC a LAN IP ro configure it to work with my router. Being new to SuSe I'm not sure where to do this. Also my router is not showing the PC connected either it shows fine in windows and Red Hat though. Pretty sure I'm just doing somethign wrong since I was trying to do this while getting ready for work. I assigned an IP to my router using the SuSE box's MAC adress. Still can't get online.

My last complaint is that this OS is HORRIBLY slow. Anything I click take about 5-10-30 seconds to come up.. My Pc is by no means a power house
Celly 300a @ 450MHZ with 128 megs of ram. But Windows 2000 is SEVERAL times faster both loading up and in operation. As it is now I basicaly click the mouse walk away and come back then make a selection from the menu... If this persists I will probably go back to redhat, it was also several times faster.

I like the organization and simplcity compared to RH so far..But rather disapointed with performace....Drivers....etc.

I have fewer issues with SuSE (version 9.1), the partitions was one of the strenghts (it's possible to make partitions with the OS booted ).

I suggest you pick a less resource hungry distro (or GUI for that matter). Maybe Debian with XCFE.

I agree, and configuring swap space on SuSE is especially easy.

How exactly did you try configuring it? Could you post some more details and maybe we can help?

Well the Partition Manager only let me select between entire gig's on my 80 gig HD it would not allow me to select 73.5 for example....

And you have to remove one partition from the manager to increase the size of another and then put recreate the first one and put it back. Kind of a pain in the ass if you ask me..I can think of better ways to do things...

They made it too simple in some areas IMO stupid slider or increment button only goes up by a whole gig...

Not really a hgue deal but it agrivated me a little..

Main problem is the video card artifacting and not being able to connect to net (yet)

Redhat seems to have just as much GUI and did not have the long delas and pauses I experience in SUSE...I was going to try debian but it's 15 CD's!

So I guess I really need to DL all 15 CD's and try Debian instead? I realy wanted a less inflated OS for my poor old comp...

just use plane old fdisk???