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Knurpht@openSUSE composed on 2018-06-14 18:56 (UTC+0200):
Per Jessen composed:
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
I hate to sound "me too", but these are also the reasons why I have stayed with SuSE over the years. I went looking for a Linux distro almost the same day IBM announced it was discontinuing OS/2 (around 2001/2002, iirc, but maybe earlier), which I had been running since version 2.0. After a quick comparison of features, I rather quickly settled on SuSE 6.3, and I have been running SuSELinux/openSUSE ever since.
I took a little longer to give up on OS/2, 2004/2005, otherwise very much the same story. I also complete agree with what jdd wrote, as well as what Mikhail wrote about KDE.
claim to fame? dunno, for me SuSE Linux was my first Linux distro. I never had much reason to look elsewhere.
Same here. Started with 5.4 in 1998, left Windows in 2001, tried other distros, but always next to S.u.S.E./SuSE/openSUSE. It's simply home. And not only the best KDE implementation, GNOME as well. And I guess I ran all the versions.
While still using DesqView/QEMM on first DOS 5, then PC DOS 7/2000, I started poking at Linux by buying an InfoMagic 6 CD box set at the same time I was seriously considering upgrading OS/2 2.1x to Warp 4, and using it more than dabbling with it, seeing a need to upgrade from BBS tinkering to real Internet access. Warp got the nod; the InfoMagic CDs never made it out of their box long enough to be installed anywhere. On the threshhold of Y2K I bought a ©2000 Linux book that included a RedHat 5.1 CD, which I installed on a second PC. Gnome put me off and got little more than dabbled with until both Corel/KDE/WordPerfect and Mandrake 7's KDE got my attention, and more serious use. Windows 3 never got used here for anything but its built-in games, a quickly abandoned novelty, and the ability to speak with any familiarity about it. Windows 95 didn't get installed on anything here until long after Windows ME proved its lack of worth, and only as a learning exercise. I did (and still do) have Win98SE, W2K(?) and WinXP on extra/older PCs, but mainly only for purposes of Mozilla testing, web site QA, and eventually Logitech Harmony Remote management, now handled by the painful slug that is Win10, which is otherwise used only for web site evaluation in IE and Edge, and occasionally dealing with warranty & RMA people. What got my secondary PC headed into full time use was SuSE 8.0's HTTP installation and YaST2, obviously high quality Deutsch products. I quickly went to 8.1, and then with 8.2 and Apache, 24/7, though still secondary to OS/2 as migrated to eComStation. It wasn't until it became obvious in Q3 2009 that post-1.1.19 SeaMonkey wasn't going to have adequate support in eCS that I made the migration of primary OS from eCS to openSUSE. I still run eCS 24/7, because Linux can't do DOS like OS/2 can do DOS, which is where I keep most things DB and/or financial, in heavily macro'd QPro, which never that I could find acquired a migration path to anything else, GUI or otherwise. I do also use other Linux distros on (a bunch of) other PCs, but that's all about various forms of QA, learning, technical support, and a bit of FOSS cross-pollination now & then. None of them get more than a few hours' uptime at a time, and all share HD space with at least three installations of the best overall Linux distro, openSUSE. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org