So Long, SuSE, We Hardly Knew Ye!

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:59 -0600, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 17:34 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> >> On Sunday 05 November 2006 20:58, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> >>>> Begrudgingly, Red Hat and Fedora have another customer.
> >>>>
> >>>> Kurt
> >>> Unfortunately, I concur.  I just took Suse off my wife's laptop.  It may
> >>> take until the end of the semester to get it off mine.  I went with
> >>> kubuntu.  I really liked the Suse distro.  It really is a shame.
> >> Ok, what's the best way to get a copy of kunbuntu??  I'd rather not download 
> >> the whole thing unless it can be done in chunks...  Would rather get a DVD or 
> >> CD's.
> > 
> > Well, just come on over to Fedora! We'd love ta have ye. We'll even let
> > you look at the Big Board! There is no mine shaft gap there. Free cubic
> > desktop, exploding kernels and a pretty decent crowd to hang with on the
> > list, full of Linux notables. FC6 has been released recently so you
> > might as well join in the Bug-Hunt. It's a fun crowd and well behaved.
> > Ric
> 
> I may have to give it a try again.  My last experience with RH was a few
> years back.  At that time, I just could not figure out how to get RH to
> do what I wanted.  Kind of like I can program in C but not Pascal, Or
> Prolog but not Lisp.  The RH way just doesn't fit in my head.  Or, at
> least, it didn't.

Same way with me, I could never get slackware into my head when I could
just rpm a package and have it work. Usually, I have to add to be
honest. I moved over to Caldera when it first came out, which being a
little more pricey than the rest, we had a more "Republican" crowd
there. There was no such thing as "cheap seats" for free user 14
year-olds to romp around in the Caldera list. RedHat was $39 and Caldera
was $125, in 1997, go figure. But the usual discourse on human
observations was there, like it is here, and we all had fun yaking about
BBQ and whatever took the group off into off-topic discussions. 

It was very rare that anything looking like a flame-war would erupt.
Very rare. We repelled those barbarian hordes. So, I guess it's more a
matter of community-sense, to me, than anything else. It's nice to be
able to pick your family! FC6 just might surprise you, plus the crowd
there is like the crowd here. Ric

   
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