Fwd: Re: SimplyMEPIS distro

[Alma J Wetzker]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On 05/22/2005 07:20 AM, Harry G wrote:
> 
>> I have been running Suse for about a year, but have had issues of 
>> things breaking while updating using Yast update.  My not be true, but 
>> I have a feeling being a RPM distro has something to do with it.
>>
>> I looked at ubuntu, but I am not fond of the Gnome desktop.  Seems a 
>> lot more difficult to use and set up.
>>
>> Decisions, decisions.
>>
>> Thanks for the input.
> 
> 
> No, i think its SuSE.  I've had the misfortunte of using 9.2, 9.3 & 
> SLES9 recently, and its the most unstable, buggy distribution i've ever 
> used.  Oops left & right, lockups, utterly unintuitive menus and tools 
> (yast).  And this was on multiple boxes, so it wasn't a hardware issue.

While I tend to agree with the comment about YAST, my experience with 
SuSE is almost the opposite.  I use SuSE for a desktop and only limited 
web and Samba server.  I have it up on four systems, including a laptop, 
and they all work perfectly (mostly).  I am almost tempted to give up 
Gentoo on my main system and the server.  The only error I get is one 
machine that goes to 100% utilization on X and nothing on the box 
responds, except across the network.  I kill the X process by logging in 
from another box and the system behaves nicely for another 4 - 20 days. 
  That same system had that problem with a few other distros, so I can't 
blame Suse.  I am using Suse Pro 9.x.

     -- Alma