On Monday 20 December 2004 05:19 pm, David Johanson wrote:
This has definitely not been my experience as chronicled on this list. What has been surprising to me is the almost total lack of response to the problems I've been detailing such as phantom drives being listed, drives not being found, and apparently total inability to deal with ATAPI zip drives. At this point I'm looking into other distributions. Up through 9.0 I felt like SuSE was THE distribution to own, but I'm beginning to change my opinions more and more with each subsequent release since 9.0
I do have to agree on the zip drive thing. I still haven't looked into that. I rarely use the drive any more. Could it be there is a lack of response to your problems because so few are seeing them. For me, it's hard to solve a problem I haven't seen and can't reproduce. No OS is perfect. I've had my share of problems getting windows to install on some boxes. On this box (amd64, nforce, nvidia), I had to do a bios upgrade just to get 9.1 to install. Even then it was pretty unstable. 9.2 wasn't much better until I turned acpi off. Since then everything has been good... I hope it continues. I'm not married to Suse. It works for me. If it ever doesn't, I'll move on to what does. That's what I did when Red Hat went a direction I didn't like. To me that is part of the power of linux. Frankly, I kind of liked Gentoo, but Suse is giving me all I need at less of a learning curve so I'll stay a while. I'm sure you'll find what works best for you. Good luck Doug