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[Wycke]

Originally Posted by incynr8

What things are you missing that you need? Alot are in the guru and packman repositories, either packages to replace 'stock' ones, or the ones you perhaps are needing.
The card can be found and configured, freedom is usually only a text file edit away.

Well, it was primarily evolution-exchange (since I use Exchange for my e-mail), Java JRE, and some other browser plugins (Flash, Shockwave, etc). At this point, I've got it mostly where I want it to be, with the exception of JRE. Version 1.4.something is there, but I really wanted to get 1.6 installed. Installing through YaST, I keep getting dependency-related errors ("no valid source for the required dependency" or something like that), and that's after adding a bunch of repositories (opensuse.org, packman, guru, and a few others). I also got my D-Link card working via MadWifi, but it takes ffoorreevveerr to initialize (like 10-15 minutes, compared to like 2 minutes under Ubuntu).

I did have a bitch of a time with X setup...for some reason it went through the motions and seemed to work, but rebooting resulted in the X server crashing before it even got off the ground. I eventually got it straightened out, but now I need to edit the boot menu to eliminate the boot modes that I know don't work and change the default to the one that I know does work.

[incynr8]

for 64 bit, you need to use blackdown java.
I have never seen shockwave for nix.
Flash is easy on 64 bit, but you need ndswrapper.

konveinentsuse package installs MOST things with one click, except ndswrapper/64 bit browser adn flash and blackdown java.

I haven't tested evolution exchange, I just use crossover 5.0 with outlook.

[Wycke]

Originally Posted by incynr8

for 64 bit, you need to use blackdown java.
I have never seen shockwave for nix.
Flash is easy on 64 bit, but you need ndswrapper.

konveinentsuse package installs MOST things with one click, except ndswrapper/64 bit browser adn flash and blackdown java.

I haven't tested evolution exchange, I just use crossover 5.0 with outlook.

Since I got the laptop to work, I gave up on the 64-bit machine. I'm probably going to defile that one with Vista for testing purposes. Evolution works pretty well, just as well as Entourage on a Mac as far as Exchange functionality. Given it's running on relatively slow & meager hardware (256 MB RAM is a very limiting factor), responsiveness is acceptable.