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FYI:

Downloaded SuSE 10.3 Release candidate 1 and installed same, the 
announcement says it's 'solid' and any differences between it and the 
final release in two weeks should be addressed by the auto updater. All 
went OK except when the lights blinked about 80% of the way in, but 
aside from that... Thanks, PSO. The blink bogered up GRUB but install 
made it through OK on the second try and I was able to fix the GRUB menu 
without incident. Had I lost the XP partition I'd be looking at the 
better part of a day to reload the dude and be very, very unhappy right now.

I'm not.

Regarding codecs and such. Used to be that you had to 'know' how to add 
repositories manually and 'know' how to find the URL's in the SuSE KB 
then 'know' how to copy & paste 'em into the source configuration 
applet. Ubuntu 7.04 is similar but a bit more obvious. Anyway, then you 
had to 'know' Mplayer is the streaming video player for Firefox and you 
had to 'know' it relies on the Gstreamer plug ins. None of this was 
difficult, but I'm not that far from noob-dom and recall the clueless 
stage quite well.

I'm pleased to say that SuSE 10.3 now has a point & click checkbox 
selector for adding software sources and the list does include Packman 
and VideoLAN. Let's just say that finding Thunderbird, Audacity, Lame, 
Mplayer, etc. isn't nearly the challenge that it was before.

So far so good... Will be adding apps this evening and the only 
head-scratcher might be in configuring display modes. The display 
settings window tells me it needs a config file and I'm assuming it's a 
case of opening the right applet and giving it the make and model of the 
monitor... (I hope!) Video card is an Intel i845 on a Dell mo'board 
which shouldn't be an oddball.

BTW: SuSE has been one CD install since 10.3 Alpha 5 or there abouts and 
will download around 300 megs during install. Servers were kinda' busy 
this afternoon due to the new release but should come back up to speed 
in a day or two.