Larry Stotler wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Sid Boyce
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.
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
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. 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org