So since Im forced to use SUSE at work cause we're a Novell shop I think
I should chime in here. Quoting this from Bob -
Reasons Ubuntu impresses me:
hardware support out of the box
very little cmd line configuration needed
good security update mechanism
good documentation
focus on usability
- end quote - I dont see anything here that SUSE cant do .. SUSE 10
is also exptremely fast .. boots in about half the time as SUSE 9.3 -
everyting else runs great as well and YAST has made me lazy - forgetting
the manual way to do a lot of things if I need to .
I think SUSE's main hardware support plus is it's easy config of
wireless devices.. when I mentioned wireless at the EWEB building
everyone went "ugh" but I have had no issues, including WPA support as
long as you use a card with standard chipstes ( and I've also had
success using the NDIS wrapper with HP and Dell native drivers )
Admittedly I have not used Ubuntu yet.. What about a distro Bake-off
sometime next year ? That sounds like fun...
Mark
Max Lemieux wrote:
Yes, all those package managers you mention are front ends for apt,
which is itself a front end for dpkg. They can be used
interchangeably, just not at the same time (since apt only likes to
have one process going at once).
Ubuntu has a very active, helpful, large community of users and its
forums contain how-tos for everything under the (fluorescent lamp).
Including Wine/Cedega for games. What games are you looking to play?
Lots of them work fine, some of them work with hacks, some don't work
at all. Some games are even available in native Linux binaries,
depending on the genres you like (Enemy Territory, UT all flavors,
Doom 3 come to mind)
-Max
Rob Hudson wrote:
I give Ubuntu a +1 also.
I haven't used it enough to know... can you use apt-get and (synaptic
or kynaptic or kpackage) interchangeably?
-Rob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ubuntu++
The only Linux distribution I can stand. And yes, Fedora Core and
Ubuntu
look a lot similar, but in my opinion that's where the similarities
stop.
Ubuntu is actually usable as a desktop system.
/jgw
Lord Ogier de Corbeil wrote:
What I want is a good solid GUI - desktop environment that I can
count
on.
I have Ubuntu running on two laptops. I am impressed by it. I don't
know how it does with Windows games, though.
Reasons Ubuntu impresses me:
hardware support out of the box
very little cmd line configuration needed
good security update mechanism
good documentation
focus on usability
I'm actually using Kubuntu, which is Ubuntu + KDE. Kubuntu is not as
polished as Ubuntu.
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
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