SUSE Linux

[no_dos]

How many people here are using SUSE Linux?
I just installed SUSE 6.1 on my PC and am curious if I'm the only one using SUSE.
Now I just need to get my ethernet cards working so I can get online with my Linux Box.

josh

P.S. It's no more windows for me I got my Mac set up with everything I need to use it as my daily computer so I was able to wipe Windows completely off of my PC and make it a Linux only box.

[lm72]

Guilty as charged.

I run SuSe 7.2 the only problem i had was my D-Link(Cheap ethernet card) DFE-538 TX no being support ok but i found away to get it working ok i just select generic chip it was based on it great :)

Alex

[andrzej]

Please make sure you don't have any services running. SuSE 6.1 is outdated and many daemons have known security flaws.
Either don't use telnet, apache etc, or (better, but harder) upgrade to latest versions.
I'm not sure how much newbie you are. Please forgive me if I'm telling you things you know very well.

Shutting down services:
comment them out in /etc/inetd.conf and execute killall -HUP inetd (or wait till first reboot).
some don't run from inetd - erase (or move somewhere) links to scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc.0 to 6

Upgrading may be intimidating for a new user: you'll need to upgrade many libraries (glibc inclusive) and the rpm program. You'll have some dependency problems.
It's waaay easier in Debian, IMO. But still feasible in SuSE.

Good luck.

[no_dos]

Originally posted by andrzej:
<STRONG>Please make sure you don't have any services running. SuSE 6.1 is outdated and many daemons have known security flaws.
Either don't use telnet, apache etc, or (better, but harder) upgrade to latest versions.
I'm not sure how much newbie you are. Please forgive me if I'm telling you things you know very well.

Shutting down services:
comment them out in /etc/inetd.conf and execute killall -HUP inetd (or wait till first reboot).
some don't run from inetd - erase (or move somewhere) links to scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc.0 to 6

Upgrading may be intimidating for a new user: you'll need to upgrade many libraries (glibc inclusive) and the rpm program. You'll have some dependency problems.
It's waaay easier in Debian, IMO. But still feasible in SuSE.

Good luck.</STRONG>

Right now I don't think I have to worry about any of the security flaws yet since I'm still getting my ethernet cards configured so I can get online with my Linux box. As soon as I get it online though I plan on fixing any security flaws that it may have since I connect to the internet through a cable modem. Thanks for the information though.

josh