SUSE 9.0 mumblings

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 23:28, Collins wrote:
> Hey, distro-wars are great, any war at a distance come to think of it <g>. And 
> besides, it keeps the complaints about a dead list to the mininum.

:)

> Seriously, gentoo is my distro of choice, but my latest experience with SUSE 
> 9.0 puts it in second place.  Unfortunately, I haven't spent enough time with 
> any of the debian based distros to have an opinion one way or the other.  
> KNOPPIX, of course, makes a great rescue system.  I read good comments about 
> the new Sun linux distro (misnamed something with Java in the name), but I 
> haven't tried it out.

Again, I would like to test out Gentoo.  We'll see.  Perhaps test it as
well as the successor of Sourceror's Linux.  I hear Deb's great if a
little less friendly... (Although I thought Gentoo was a stem-shoot from
Debian)

As you can probably guess from my posts, I believe that SuSE is probably
the best RPM-based distro, at least for my purposes.

> OTOH, I believe that X and sendmail were both created by the same bunch in the 
> depths of an acid trip.  I can't get around using X, but I sure don't have to 
> put up with sendmail <g>..

Oh, not me.  Give me a hit from that bong, While X and Sendmail's
configs are both somewhat painful (m4 should not be a user's
responsibility), their value is quite extreme.  The Network-transparent
approach to X still amazes me.  How incredible is that!?  Anyway, I do
digress.  You can make Sendmail do just about anything, although
admittedly NOT on accident :)