Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: SimplyMEPIS distro

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Harry G wrote:

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> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: SimplyMEPIS distro Date: Sun May 22 2005
> 14:58 From: Net Llama! <netllama at gmail.com> To: Linux tips and
> tricks <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
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> On 05/22/2005 07:20 AM, Harry G wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
>
Wow, amazing how different people can come away with differing
opinions about the same thing.
I've been using SuSE for a while, and have been very happy with 8.2,
9.1 and 9.2 professional (not real keen on the personal version since
I want it all :)
As a solid Kubuntu user I find their menu system far better than other
distros I've used.  I'll agree that Yast took some warming up to, but
for me that was due to its totalitarian regime of the 6.x and 7.x
days.  I don't have trouble with Oopses and lockups are quite
infrequent (months+ if ever).

I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but know that your experiences
have not been ubiquitous.

However, given the open and free nature of Kubuntu, and its basis on
Debian, I've been enjoying it.
I've noticed a lot of things that SuSE just does right that Kubuntu
makes you configure.  While I'm generally ok with that, it's been
eye-opening just how many things SuSE took care of and that "just
worked" right out of the box.  I've seen other strengths of SuSE over
Ubuntu (and possibly Debian in general).  The folks at SuSE have a lot
of good things going on.  I still highly recommend this distro, even
if I'm on indefinite sebatical.

I guess you could say that I favor one-offs.  They can often bring
more value and "listen-to-you-ness".  I choose Linux over Windows, the
clear market-leader for the entire 7 years I've been involved in
Linux, but Linux has a lot of value over Windows.
I chose Caldera over Red Hat.  Clear value: cleaner, friendlier, prettier.
I chose SuSE over Red Hat.  Continued value: more blessed
vendor-packages, comprehensive configuration, many things just work,
and work well together (pronounced "integration").  Pretty much every
howto or doc I've read that says "apply this patch and recompile the
kernerl" or something similar, SuSE has already done the work for me.
I chose Kubuntu over Debian.  Friendlier (distro and community),
prettier, KDE, focus on today.

If you think about it, none of these one-offs would be anything if not
for its predecessor.  But they have definitely improved on the
original work.  While one was busy "leading the world" the others were
innovating and improving, turning the wheel into something more
efficient, beautiful, and "aerodynamic".

I'll probably get flamed by someone over this, but these are my thoughts.

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