I've been using Suse as my main work desktop for about 1.5 years now.
I've also been maintaining my wife's laptop with Ubuntu for the last
~6-8 months. Right now I'd have to say I prefer ubuntu. As nice as
Yast is for hardware type stuff, apt-get and the gui wrappers for it are
much easier to install extra software with.
-Mike
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 19:21, Spugee wrote:
> 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>
> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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