On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Jerry Feldman
I've been a happy SuSE user for a number of years now (since 5.0) as well as Linux since about 1993 (Yggdrasil). However, I just purchased a new workstation with CentOS5 preinstalled and I've decided to move to Centos for the time being. I do like SuSE, and will continue to support it at the BLU installfests, and I may remain on this list if I have the time. As I had previously mentioned, I put Ubuntu on my laptop because of a work requirement. One of my plans is to create a SuSE VM under my Centos/Xen system.
Still on Opensuse. But wanted to report: Yesterday and new Dell XPS laptop arrived here with Ubuntu installed. Everything worked out of the box. Everything. No dicking around with repositories, no fighting video drivers, no manually loading WIFI drivers, music played perfectly, DVDs played perfectly, if found my local windows network, found my HpPrinter/scanner/fax and printed scanned and faxed perfectly thru it. The DVD burner software worked. The automatic update software found, reported, and installed updates. Everything, even non-core features worked. *cough*. Even the Fingerprint reader worked. There was at least 30 hours of work that would have been beyond the capability of the machines owner (wife) that was completely avoided by ordering Linux pre-installed. Too bad it couldn't have been Opensuse, but Ubuntu will do for her needs. -- ----------JSA--------- There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that can read binary and those that can't. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org