On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 12:23 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I can't really tell you the difference. I don't really want to download all that stuff, and I like to support SuSE with my purchase. But I'll admit that the box is becoming less and less desirable. I was running 9.3 on my laptop and was waiting to bring it up to 10.1. Lots of work to do to accomplish that, including madwifi.
Well, the reason I purchased SUSE before (various SuSE/SUSE x.x Pro and SLES) was: 1. Because I like the distro - it's different from most everything I've used, in that everything is well designed, well through trough, works in a logical way - has that solid "German Engineering" feel to it. 2. Considering #1, I like to support the people that do such wonderful work. 3. Because SUSE was always pitched at people who need stuff to just work and work reliably at that. Hence some of the commercial stuff (drivers especially) have always been included, which is a *big* advantage, because it saves me a lot of time when setting up servers for clients. Time is money... But the last two releases have become less and less like the SUSE I got to know and love, and more and more like the unstable and buggy development distro that is Fedora. With each successive release of SUSE I find myself rebuilding more and more source rpms, just to get stuff to work the way they used to. With the last two releases, for the first time since I started to use SUSE (circa 6.1), I've had to grab srpms from older versions and build them on the newer release. I find my list of reasons to choose SUSE growing shorter with every release. To be honest, I've already started builing mail servers with Debian Sarge, instead of SUSE, simply because in the time it takes SUSE, I can have Debian installed and everyting set up and working. SUSE is still my favourite Desktop distro by a fair stretch (even more so after trying out Gentoo for a couple of months). I just like the way KDE is built. I like the fact that my notebook's dynamic cpu frequency scaling works correct and power management in general is something I don't have to think about - it just works. Hans