I love SuSE, therefore it pains me no end to have to run RedHat on my development and work boxes. But I do. I do not have time to do development for SuSE to get things to work, that just Work in RedHat. nessus for example. It just runs in RedHat. For Suse I can tweak it to get it to run, but it segfaults here and there still. Something as simple as all this font stuff we had recently on the list just work in Redhat. I do not like it either. By the way, have you tried XFCE3? much nicer than OLVWM. Slim too. My2cts Keith Warno wrote:
Lotsa talk I see here about all sorts of X stuff, people saying that they're this and that close to switching to Linux as they're desktop environment, etc etc etc.
And everyone using all these fancy window managers, like KDE, etc (guess cuz they're cool and easy -- *point* *click*)
I feel like an outcast using OLVWM. But there's a reason: the box(es) (SuSE 6.2) are used for development. CGI stuff in C/C++ with mysql thrown in. OLVWM isn't a resource hog.
What I'm curious about is what other SuSE users on this list use SuSE for. How many of yas out there use it for development of any sort in a commercial environment? In 9 out of 10 places I see Red Hat being used and that does evil things to my gut. I personally started off w/ Slackware in the early days (1994), tried Red Hat for literally a day, and have been with SuSE -- using it for development -- for nearly two years.
What about you folks? This is an open-ended sort of topic; My intention is not to start a distro war. I'm simply curious to see what ppl are using _SuSE_ for.
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