Re:SUSE in English

[rambozo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I recently installed SuSe 6.4 (the latest version) on my linux box 
because, for several reasons, I am eager to get away from Redhat.  
The only reason I went back to redhat is because, for some 
reason, Redhat is able to get 1024x768 X resolution on my old, 
crappy monitor, and no other distro i've tried can do this.  

As far as language issues are concerned, I would have been able 
to decipher some German because i've taken two years of German 
in school, but I had no need to.  Everything I used was either in 
both german and english, or in only english as a result of selecting 
english in the installer.

Speaking of the installer, the text-based installer YAST is a quite 
different from the redhat installer, and not quite as user-friendly.  
The default settings are for german keyboards and german 
language, so make sure to change those.  I can't comment on the 
new, graphical installer, YAST2, because it requires a minimum of 
48 mb RAM, which I fall 8 megs short of, and therfore refused to 
run on my system.

It was my impression and understanding from various other 
discussions i read that Redhat RPMs and SuSE RPMs are not, in 
fact, compatible.  Thats why there are sometimes versions for both 
distros available.  The reason for this is that SuSE and Redhat 
organized things somewhat different in the directory tree, and so 
files need to be installed in different places or else programs can't 
find them.  But thats just my little-more-than-newbie understanding. 

-Josh
(who just got back from Italy and is now on summer break, working 
at his school district's technology department and having much 
more free time to use for playing with linux)