OpenSUSE, Anyone?

[Net Llama!]

On 10/04/2005 07:30 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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.

Its interesting that you feel this way, because my experiences have been 
the complete opposite on AMD64.  I've found SuSE's x86_64 releases to be 
horrificly unstable nightmares, where-as Redhat's were quite a bit more 
polished.  I'm assuming that you're comparing SuSE to Redhat, right?

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