[NTLUG:Discuss] Gaim werked fer me!

[Chris Cox]

lonny.dahl at verizon.com wrote:
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> I actually had Gaim working on my computer at home.  That is, until I
> completely hosed my system attempting to upgrage to KDE 3.2.  Since that
> happened, I've attempted to upgrage to FC2, but couldn't get it to
> upgrade...so I attempted to do a fresh install (I had saved off as much
> backup as I could before attempting it) and every time, the install just
> aborts after it's gone far enough to blow away what was left of my system.
> I don't know if it's related to hardware or maybe that I have some bad
> discs (I downloaded and burned FC2 before the attempt).  The discs passed
> the media evaluation before install (my 2nd disc failed media eval, so I
> redownloaded and burned it and it tested ok 2nd time around).
> 
> I'm considering leaving RH and going to Suse...can someone tell me the
> essential difference between Suse 9.1 Personal and Professional?  And would

I would avoid the Personal... and only use Professional.  GNU Linux is
a "do all OS"... no sense in trying to limit it.

> you recommend staying with Suse 9.0 until they get the bugs worked out of
> 9.1?  If the only real difference between Personal and Professional is the

I have friends running 9.1 with confidence.  However, there are many
issues with the 2.6 kernel and drivers yet to be addressed... I personally
do not advocate putting 9.1 into production (it's essentially a .0).

I do have a 9.1 test machine at home... I do believe in putting the .0's
thru their paces.... but 9.0 is really 8.3 and 9.1 is really 9.0.
If 9.1 works for you... great... but I've seen it do some really nasty
things especially when high raid controllers are involved.  SUSE makes
it easy (though you need to know the secret) to upgrade to KDE 3.2
on 9.0 (comes with KDE 3.1).  But.. unless eye candy is important,
there's not too much KDE 3.2... if you rely on the http://packman.links2linux.org/
packages for adding good multimedia support to SUSE, you may be
forced to upgrade your 9.0 SUSE to use the SUSE supplied (easy
upgrade) KDE 3.2.

If you don't need the hard copy documentation, you can order the
9.0 Pro update from SUSE's website and save some bucks.  The manuals
come with Pro on the CDs/DVD... so you get the full docs, just not
in hardcopy.  Cost is like $60 that way.

Gaim is a real porting pain btw across any platform.  As nice as
Gaim is... if you can find something else (Kopete, whatever) that you
can live with, you will be much better off IMHO.