C. Richard Matson wrote:
On Monday 29 November 2004 2:30 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:
Allen wrote:
http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/0/4662743FE8FF0106CC256F56007A25C7?O penDocument
Long link but a good read. I've been plugging for SUSE since I first used it and nothing can touch it. The only thing that even comes CLOSE is Slackware. SUSE is really getting up to par on the business world, and I think it's great. And look at the screen shot towards the bottom! BEAUTIFUL!
It's a Gnome background. We already have it in 9.2.
Take that XP, RedHat, Sco, And every other shitty OS.
SuSE has been my main distro for quite a few years,
Me too. Since 7.1 Rich
Since 6.2 I think, the only reason I didn't switch from RedHat before - I had been preparing a tool-set CD with X3270, Citrix client and a slew of other apps needed for laptops at work as we were contemplating a switch to Linux for our guys worldwide and the guys Stateside favoured Redhat and insisted I packaged for it, it being a home grown distro and probably the only one they could name way back then. When the project fell through due to lack of upper management buy-in after I'd worked some incredible hours to produce it with the help of 2 other guys here in the UK, I switched wholesale to SuSE as did the other guys. A funny thing happened when I was stateside in 1999, I'd been using a PC in our development lab for 3 days testing out ATM hardware/firmware on the mainframes. I knew it was some kind of Unix, SCO (Yiiikes!) perhaps, so I asked another guy who said he thought it was Linux, sure enough, when I dug deeper, it was Linux with Windowmaker which I hadn't seen before - it ran applications so we could flip various bits, test and fix or report errors. I wonder how many other guys never knew that, perhaps most of the developers didn't know. When I asked around, I found there was quite a bit of Linux around that was used in hardware/firmware development, both on desktops and laptops. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====