OpenSUSE, Anyone?

[Kurt Wall]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:34:53AM -0500, Ben Duncan took 38 lines to write:
> Hmmm, I have thought about toying with it.
> 
> I still prefer Slackware 10.1 right now.
> 
> Kurt, any compelling reason to switch to O.S  from Slackware ?

I'm getting lazy, or at least I'm currently less interested in tinkering
with my machine. I just want things to work. I'm also working on books
about SUSE and Red Hat. No one writes, much less *buys*, books about
Slackware. My server still runs Slackware and will probably continue to
do so. On my desktop, which is an Opteron, I like SUSE's 64-bit-ness.
SLAMD64 runs okay on the Opteron, but it's got a lot of rough edges.
Then there's the fact that Novell is standing to SCO, and I'm interested
in supporting that effort by voting with my wallet. Finally, I still
appreciate good ole German over-engineering, and SUSE's got plenty of
that. :-)

None of these are compelling, with the exception of SUSE's more polished
behavior on AMD64.

Kurt
-- 
Everyone talks about apathy, but no one ____does anything about it.