Yeah, Virtualbox is great for basic stuff. I suppose you could install a separate drive for trying new distros. Personally, I'm tired of distro-hopping.
Oops, I think were starting to hijack this thread. I'm actually happy just to see people use Linux and get some freedom. On Oct 30, 12:23 am, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mooreted wrote: > > Yeah, the 10.x series definitely had issues. Suse 11.0 has optimized > > Yast so that it's very fast. Suse also has 1-click install on their > > web page so you can search for a package and just click Install. If > > you add the Packman and Non-Oss repos you get all the latest packages > > through Yast. The hardware setup and compatibility is really good. I > > now have it on every computer and laptop in my house and It's running > > great. > > > My only beef is Kde 4. Still too many annoyances and instabilities. > > I'm sticking with 3.5.9 for now. > > Hmm, I just downloaded OpenSuse 11 and installed it a virtual machine. > It was pretty zippy until I tried enabling something 3d (vbox doesn't > like 3d one bit) and now I can't use the GUI. Oh well, I really should > have seen that one coming. > > I'll have to give it another spin (though that'd require backing up all > my user data from my current install - 30 gb of stuff!) Yikes! > > If only I could afford a drobo box... that'd be sweet! > > So thanks for sticking to your guns! Apparently the nastiness was just > localized to suse 10. It looked like a great distro, just a little > wonky on the inside. Good to know that was just a passing phase! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
