Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (720 mails)

[netsomni@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Brian)]

I agree re:libs and kernel the same for all. 

I used S.u.S.e. Xserver, KDE libs, and QT libs in Slackware. I would 
NOT have had support for my Diamond Viper 330 AGP w/Riva128 
in Slackware if it weren't for suse. 

Brian

> Date:          Fri, 03 Apr 1998 23:11:54 -0300
> To:            suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> From:          Felipe Figueiredo <philsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:       Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Distribution comparisons
> Reply-to:      suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx

> 
> At 17:58 03/04/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >> There's some talk about distributions; once agin while avoiding the holy
> wars,
> >> I have to give my 2 cents...
> >>
> >> ***SuSE*** is by far my favorite, reasons:
> >>         1-This list!  Nice to have the heart of the company on the line
> here.
> >>         2-YaST+RPM.  I don't know what I did without it!  As simple as
> >> setup.exe.
> >>         3-SuSEwm, it has its faults, mostly remembering to patch a new
> config
> >> with the existing one... it's *vital* for surviving an X setup on half
> an hour
> >> a day plus weekends! :)
> >>         4-Very current.
> >>         5-PACKAGES!!!  WOW! There's always more than you think!
> >>
> >> I really liked ***Slackware***, because:
> >>         1-Very granular, more so than any other dist.  You *can* set up
> an old
> >> notebook in 100 MB of disk (and I have).  I wish SuSE would break down
> packages
> >> a bit more... i.e. I don't want a full TeX distribution on a minor
> >> installation!  How about the extreme basics with addons?  Why are there
> QT demo
> >> programs when all I wanted was the libraries so I could run KDE?  So on.
> >>         2-pkgtool is sparse but clever for such a primitive package format.
> >>         3-A Sunsite archive!  Think of it; a basic offline mirror of a ftp
> >> directory, no promises or support, but hey you always find something
> new.  I
> >> wouldn't trade this for the preconfigured packages of SuSE, but I'd
> replace the
> >> live file system with it.
> >>         4-It was my first distribution since Slackware 3.0, It came a
> --LoNG--
> >> way since then!
> >>
> >> ***Caldera OpenLinux Lite***
> >>         1-Installation!!!  I loved the default setups (minimal, full, etc.)
> >>         2-Looking Glass was _very_ nice, intuitive
> >>         3-nice selection of packages even on the Lite dist.
> >>
> >> ***Red Hat***
> >>         (only a few minutes on a Red Hat machine)
> >>         1-Control Panel... clever!
> >>         2-coming up with RPM in the first place
> >>         3-nice selection of packages on the web site!
> >>         (I show my ignorance by not saying more)
> >>
> >> That's all I've tried.  I like them all :)  I thought I would like
> Slackware
> >> less once I tried the preconfigured world of SuSE, but I don't.  I still
> >> recommend SuSE the most, but I __love__ the small footprint of Slackware.
> >>
> >> Comments?
> >>
> >> ---
> >> jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >> Finagle's Creed:
> >>         Science is true.  Don't be misled by facts.
> >>
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> >Very well said, I agree.
> >
> >mc
> >
> 
> You bet! I'm sort of new in the show, and my first try was (and indeed it
> still IS) slackware 3.4. I'm so satisfied with it, that I don't intend to
> change it, unless it's for a distribution with X11 3.3.2, and more apps.
> 
> I guess the new version of SuSE is just like it, isnt it? Although I'd
> rather wait a little more, get really used to linux, XFree86, programming,
> and then I'll search for another distribution. Trying another in this case,
> will be mostly for experiencing purposes, as I said I like Slack. After
> all, as a friend said, all linux distributions are alike. they differ
> moslty in the installation process, as the kernel and the libs are the same
> for all.
> 
> Agreed?
> 
> 
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