Subj : Re: Rocky Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Sat Sep 27 2025 10:07:47

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: Rocky Linux
 Ni>   By: Gamgee to Accession on Thu Sep 25 2025 09:15 pm

 Ga> Hehe, yeah me neither.  Always thought Suse was weird even back before it
 Ga> "split".  Certainly don't have any interest in it now.

 Ni> Although I had tried Slackware in the mid-90s, SuSE was one of the
 Ni> first Linux distros I seriously got into, around 1999 or so. At the
 Ni> time, SuSE had its own configurator for X that I found to be more
 Ni> successful at detecting my video hardware and its valid settings, so I
 Ni> was able to get XFree86 running fairly easily with SuSE.  Also, it had
 Ni> a fairly large repository of included software (and from what I
 Ni> remember, it was one of the earlier distibutions available for DVD-R,
 Ni> whereas most other distros at the time were on a CD or two).

 Ni> Eventually though, its X configurator didn't work so well anymore, and
 Ni> I moved on to other Linux distros.  I found similar problems with other
 Ni> Linux distros around that time, where one version would work fairly
 Ni> well but the next version wouldn't.  It seems like most Linux distros
 Ni> these days don't really have that issue.

Yes, I remember having to configure "modelines" and stuff like that in 
an X config file.  Not much fun as I recall...  I think I always did it 
just with an editor though, don't remember any configurators.  And yes, 
that isn't a thing any more, I guess X itself is more able to detect the 
hardware and adjust to it automagically.  



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