Fwd: Re: SimplyMEPIS distro

[Net Llama!]

On 05/22/2005 02:07 PM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>> 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.

I'm sure hardware was a factor for me in so much that what I was using 
was somewhat beefy and somewhat bleeding edge.  I've got primarily SMP 
Opteron & (64bit) Xeon boxen with 4+GB RAM, and SuSE just falls all over 
itself in those configurations.  2.6.12 is supposed to fix a few very 
critical 64bit CPU SMP issues that result in unbootable configurations 
(Oops).


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