As a newbie and non-programmer, Life is very good with SuSE and tie that in with your statements - well then both tech and non tech find this distro to be solid, stable, and versitile - gotta be the right path for both. You can use and I can learn from it, and that's why it rocks. Curtis On Friday 22 June 2001 09:43 am, Steven Hatfield wrote:
On Friday 22 June 2001 11:37 pm, Curtis Rey wrote:
I moved form Man 7.1 to SuSe. I learned alot on Mandrake, but I kept running into issues that revolve around the *.mdk extensions that were used. I had some compatibility problems. Though I found that Mandrake to user friendly it IMHO doesn't compare to SuSE. SuSE is very very stable. I have not run into any compatibility issues to date. I'm a newbie of about a year. I honestly think that, as a Mandrake user, you'll find SuSE to be a notch or two above. And the users are great. If you have questions, come to the list. If a post doesn't get answered right away repost and/or change the header a bit and you'll get a response. IMHO this is the best users group I've been able to find. They polite, knowledgable, and friendly. I have gone from curious with mandrake to enthusiastic with SuSE and I can safely say I'm a fanatic and SuSE advocate. Try it - I think you'll be very satisfied, and 7.2 should absolutely rock.
Cheers, Curtis Rey
On Thursday 21 June 2001 10:10 pm, Dee McKinney wrote:
Anyone with 7.2 up & running here that could send answers to Joshua here ? Send him at isd@as.uaf.edu
>> Forwarded message from "Joshua J. Kugler"
I've heard quite a bit about the merits of SuSE and was wondering what kind of learning curve would be required for someone moving from Mandrake.
1. What is the layout for startup files (/etc/rc.d on Mdk) 2. What is the default layout for files that are installed? Do they prefer /opt, or /usr/local, etc? 3. How are the included GUI configuration utilities? I don't mind messing with text files, but on a new system, GUI config is nice. Mdk's control panel, HardDrake, etc., are REALLY nice. 4. What is the preferred package? How good is the package compatability with Mdk/Redhat, etc? i.e., could I install Redhat RPMs and be OK? 5. Where are config files usually stored? /etc? 6. How well goes the install? Mandrake's install has gotten PRETTY smooth. With a little hand holding, I was able to install Mdk 8.0 on an P133 Compaq Armada the other day. With 16MB of RAM. :)
Any other pertinant information you feel necessary.
Thanks!
j----- k----- A very happy Mandrake user. But open to change. :)
For me (I was RedHat, then Mandrake, and finally SuSE) it came down to a few things. First, RedHat and Mandrake have taken a walk down a short path known as the "alpha compiler path". This isn't a path I wanted to walk down, as it made my life as a C programmer hell. The compiler was broken, plain and simple, and they were using it! Then there was the KDE reason. The reason I moved from RedHat to Mandrake was because Mandrake better supported KDE (and contributed to the project). Then when 7.2 came around, it was pretty nice... but all of their future packages were compiled with GCC 2.96, rather than the standard 2.95.. really screwed up any upgrades to new packages. The system soon became very unstable. So I thought to myself.. if RedHat and Mandrake are walking down this path to ruin, who's on the other path?
SuSE. A KDE supporter and contributor. User of all things stable and sane. Incredible setup/configuration utilities. Icons that don't look like 8 year olds made them.
Now I'm walking down the right path, and life is gooood!
-Steven