[ale] Suse 9.1 Consortium Update

[Geoffrey]

Steve Nicholas wrote:
> OK. I'm running RH 9, which just hit it's EOL on 4/30.  I'm looking for
> options, but not in a big hurry to reinstall, and reconfigure.  I could be
> a candidate for the Suse 9.1 install.  Thoughts, issues...  Thoughts about
> Susu's firewall.  I really don't won't to reinvent the wheel, but....
> 
> What I'm going after is either a cat 5 connection or wireless to connect
> my wife's win2k box to my Linux box using Samba.  She's in a different
> room from my Linux box.  Feedback is welcome....

I would certainly think that SuSE would be a reasonable direction.  As 
for the firewall implementation, I can't help you with that, as I build 
firewalls on top of Slack.

I've recently had success with prism54 based wifi cards on Linux.  Nice 
because these are G cards and have native Linux drivers.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft