[NTLUG:Discuss] Die hard SuSE fan... err... Mandrake 8.0!

[Chris Cox]

I guess it does "depend" on many variables.
For the first time in my life, Tux Racer actually
works on a 3d setup on my G200 (mdk 8.0).

SuSE 7.1 configured the g200 but didn't do the
agp stuff right and the driver was a bit old.

Oh well... I guess every distribution can only
test certain pieces of hw.

I offered to help test SuSE in the past... they
declined my assistance (for free.... yet they
still declined... go figure).

Mandrake's contrib cd contains ImPress... maybe
that's why I like Mandrake now :-)  AFAIK, they
and Debian are the only ones packaging ImPress
today.

Regards,
Chris

Steve Baker wrote many insightful things:
> 
> Chris Cox wrote:
> 
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> Weird - I've seen a *bunch* of complaints about 3D hardware
> accelleration not working under Mandrake 8.0 on the lists of
> several 3D games (four questions today alone on the TuxRacer
> list - to pick just one)...and at work (where we do flight
> simulator graphics and *live* 3D), we've been installing SuSE
> 7.1 (over the top of SuSE 7.0 admittedly) without problems.
> 
> Well, as usual with distro's it's a matter of taste (and luck!).
>