Folks, For the past week, I have been playing around with SuSE 8.0, which I installed dual-boot with my Mandrake 8.2. I have to say, I am mightily impressed. I tried SuSE 7.3 but could never really get it configured the way I wanted to, but truth be told, I probably didn't put as much time into it as I should have. Anyway, I've been using Mandrake 8.2 and was pretty happy with it, once I installed KDE 3.0. I really liked Mandrake's Software Manager (urpmi) which did a great job of installing updated rpm's and checking and installing dependencies as needed. However, the performance was not up to snuff IMHO, and it had a funny way of crashing programs here and there. So, I gave SuSE 8.0 a whirl. The installation was super-easy (as was Mandrake's but just not as pretty) and quick. It detected and properly configured every piece of hardware I have. For once, I didn't have to spend time post-installation configuring java, mozilla plugins, etc. etc. After fixing a symlink to the nvidia drivers (thanks to a tip from this list!) that YaST nicely installed, everything was a go. My home-built computer's performance also seems to have taken a major shot in the arm, but perhaps that is partly because of SuSE using reiserfs and (by my choice) Mandrake using ext3. I did compare hdparm outputs, however, and SuSE's was much better than Mandrake's. Whatever it is, SuSE seems faster and much more stable. I will have to get used to some of the little things that are always different between competing distributions, and I would like to see the YaST program improved as has been mentioned on this list many times. Overall, though, I think SuSE has a real winner on its hands and you may have another convert. Best regards, Charles __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
On Monday 20 May 2002 22:54, Charles Griffin wrote:
Folks,
For the past week, I have been playing around with SuSE 8.0, which I installed dual-boot with my Mandrake 8.2. I have to say, I am mightily impressed. (snip) I will have to get used to some of the little things that are always different between competing distributions, and I would like to see the YaST program improved as has been mentioned on this list many times. Overall, though, I think SuSE has a real winner on its hands and you may have another convert.
Best regards, Charles
Charles, WELCOME! Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
Well, I'm a newb to Linux of just over 2 years. I started with Corel Linux then used Mandrake 7.2. I have to say the Corel, for all the user-friendliness it was said to be, was not very good. Mandrake is what I cut my teeth on. But I had a mobo that had a hpt366 and I couldn't get it to work in Man. So I contacted Andre Hedrik (the Kernel team's IDE guy) and asked him about this and also which distro he favored. Of course he said give SuSE a try - I did. I have never regreted the move. One of the biggest assest to new users is this mail list. It is unlike any other users mail list I have used - and that includes all users lists, be it for a game, a program, or an OS. The people here, for the most part, are always helpful and informative. There are regulars that have a wealth of knowledge and there are also SuSE staff that monitor the list and at times will jump in to clarify or help. Though this is not a "support" list officially. I'm sure that you'll find, as I have, that this is one of the best Linux resources around. Welcome aboard, Curtis On Monday 20 May 2002 22:09, Patrick wrote:
On Monday 20 May 2002 22:54, Charles Griffin wrote:
Folks,
For the past week, I have been playing around with SuSE 8.0, which I installed dual-boot with my Mandrake 8.2. I have to say, I am mightily impressed.
(snip)
I will have to get used to some of the little things that are always different between competing distributions, and I would like to see the YaST program improved as has been mentioned on this list many times. Overall, though, I think SuSE has a real winner on its hands and you may have another convert.
Best regards, Charles
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Charles, WELCOME!
Patrick
At 11:09 PM 5/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
On Monday 20 May 2002 22:54, Charles Griffin wrote:
Folks,
For the past week, I have been playing around with SuSE 8.0, which I installed dual-boot with my Mandrake 8.2. I have to say, I am mightily impressed. (snip) I will have to get used to some of the little things that are always different between competing distributions, and I would like to see the YaST program improved as has been mentioned on this list many times. Overall, though, I think SuSE has a real winner on its hands and you may have another convert.
Best regards, Charles
Charles, WELCOME!
Patrick
Let me chime in here.... SuSE 8.0 takes away pretty much every reason I had for not using linux full time for everything. I luvs it. :-) -- Matt
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Charles Griffin
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Curtis Rey
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Matt Nelson
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Patrick