Larry Stotler wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Sid Boyce<sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Down the years, SuSE/openSUSE has been my chosen distro, I use others in VM's and would be comfortable using many, but none would be an automatic choice.
I've stuck with SuSE since v5.3. While I have used others, I just stick with it. Between YaST and the polish, it's still one of the best distros around.
Compiz-fusion, spinning things, colourful butterflies and LED fans I can cheerfully do without.
I agree. It's one of the cases of "Let's make use of this - now how about this". At least it's an option and not a requirement like OS X.
That's another plus I hadn't thought of, it's an option. Tried compiz in its earlier days and didn't see it added anything useful.
I have not found anything good about KDE v4. It's way different from v3.x, and it reminds me way too much of Vista. I installed a copy of SuSE v8.1 on an old Thinkpad, and it even had KDE v3. That was from 2002. Really wasn't much different from what I am using now. And, coming from OS/2, I find KDE a lot like the good old WorkPlace Shell. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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. 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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