> I find the best support from newsgroups. The most detailed and > informative are not in my native language. You're not going to contest > that the SuSE homeland is in central europe are you (^:
Nope ;) Which newsgroups? The suse-linux-e mailing list has always been very informative all the times I was subscribed. Personally I consider some national diversity a bonus (though Americans might disagree), and I can't remember having had a problem finding things in English. > ? Just because a release is called stable...! Certainly unstable is now > stable ( we use it in production ), and it could be argued that testing > is as stable as most other distros. Unstable has no guarantees with it and changes on a daily(?) basis. I have been in a position where I urgently needed to downgrade to the previous version, which by then had disappeared without trace from the repositories. I'm not having any of that again. Make up your mind - it's either stable and 2 years old, or uptodate, unstable, and just that - unstable. I don't have time for the latter on production systems (which include my desktop). > I made the point a few weeks ago that for those kind of reasons Knoppix > should be considered the no. 1 candidate. Simple install, outstanding > hardware detection... quick! Yes, I would agree (assuming it's as good as it sounds, I've never transferred it to disk). As a rescue system (different topic) it's got one huge dead end: you can't take the CD out. On borrowed boxes where you need to access/burn another CD and which only have one optical drive (most do) that's a k.o. Btw (another different topic) it looks as if the SuSE 9.1 live eval is almost as good as knoppix. Haven't found the easy "save settings to USB stick" type option after a quick glance. Greets, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
