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Re: [opensuse-factory] All things considered...
- From: Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:16:31 +0100
- Message-id: <4862290F.60300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Larry Stotler wrote:
Quite a number of our corporate customers used OS/2 and we used it as the OS driving our mainframe consoles and HMC's as did IBM on their mainframes. It was a pity when IBM stopped development, it left us in a time warp (pun intended) when they switched to developing a Linux HMC and did not cooperate with us as they did on OS/2.
I was using SuSE when I was asked to develop a Linux tools CD (with everything we would need to have in linux to displace Windows) for deployment worldwide in Field engineering, the guys Stateside insisted on RedHat, so I had to change to RH 6.2 in order to support them. When the whole effort died - we gave our Worldwide director the CD's for deployment in the USA, but the guys never got them and the only statement my boss and I could get when we called him was that he thought he distributed them. In those days Linux was a dirty word in Amdahl, they set up a Linux development group of 30 engineers, laid off the lot and months later were trying to hire as many Linux guys as they could.
I immediately switched back to SuSE when the CD's didn't reach the guys they were intended for. Despite my building and using bleeding edge kernels and applications, my SuSE laptop never once let me down on the work scene.
I know many people have political issues and only political issues with the distro, so won't touch it with a barge pole, but I have found it totally dependable to the point where it's the one I deploy for total newbies and they too are happy.
Regards
Sid.
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Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Sid Boyce<sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm running KDE4 on 3 boxes with kde3 kicker, but for a few differnces
mostly in stuff like konsole only ever coming up with 1 tab, hardly any
problems noticed between them and the other kde3 boxes. Noting it's still an
ongiong development, there are bound to be some issues yet to be sorted.
Honestly, I'm not very happy with the whole look of the default KDE4.
It's too different from KDE3. And, I didn't see that it was any
faster, which is supposedly what the KDE team has been claiming.
On another note, I just installed SuSE v7.3 with the KDE 2.x and SuSE
v8.1 with the KDE v3 desktop on an old Thinkpad, and I will say that
KDE4 is a huge departure from either v2 or v3.
OS/2 - nice. Ahead of Gnome RedHat used CDE in preference to KDE and I
couldn't believe it, a completely trashy Sun desktop I've always hated.
Early Gnome based on CDE was also horrid. Tried Sun Java Desktop (AKA Gnome)
on Solaris 10 on an UltraSPARC 5 which was treacle slow and I had to switch
to KDE to make it responsive.
Yeah, I really liked the Workplace Shell. If they hadn't screwed up
the marketing, I would probably still be using it now. I have a copy
of v4.0 somewhere that I've been meaning to install. As for Red Hat,
My first experience with Linux was Red Hat 5(in a teach yourself Linux
book) and it almost was my last. Fortunately, I found a copy of SuSE
v5,3 and I've been using it ever since.
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Quite a number of our corporate customers used OS/2 and we used it as the OS driving our mainframe consoles and HMC's as did IBM on their mainframes. It was a pity when IBM stopped development, it left us in a time warp (pun intended) when they switched to developing a Linux HMC and did not cooperate with us as they did on OS/2.
I was using SuSE when I was asked to develop a Linux tools CD (with everything we would need to have in linux to displace Windows) for deployment worldwide in Field engineering, the guys Stateside insisted on RedHat, so I had to change to RH 6.2 in order to support them. When the whole effort died - we gave our Worldwide director the CD's for deployment in the USA, but the guys never got them and the only statement my boss and I could get when we called him was that he thought he distributed them. In those days Linux was a dirty word in Amdahl, they set up a Linux development group of 30 engineers, laid off the lot and months later were trying to hire as many Linux guys as they could.
I immediately switched back to SuSE when the CD's didn't reach the guys they were intended for. Despite my building and using bleeding edge kernels and applications, my SuSE laptop never once let me down on the work scene.
I know many people have political issues and only political issues with the distro, so won't touch it with a barge pole, but I have found it totally dependable to the point where it's the one I deploy for total newbies and they too are happy.
Regards
Sid.
--
Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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