I am not an OSS zealot...heaven knows how much I insist on bundling nvidia drivers with Ubuntu on the ubuntu forums :)
But I believe Ubuntu 7.04 is going to be far better than SUSE...I tried SUSE and it didn't strike me at all, especially at package management. Synaptic > Yast anyday! Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote: > Your best bet would be to ask Dell. I personally opted out for SuSE > Linux Enterprise Desktop. I find it to be far more polished than > Ubuntu. Especially in the upgrading department. I use all type of > Linux distributions, both for work and for personal use. > > For personal use, I find openSuSE to be the least error prone for > things to "Just Work <TM>". That is a personal opinion, but I base > that decision after trying, debian, ubuntu, mandriva, gentoo, slax, > kororaa, sabayon, fedora ... did I forget anyone ? > > I just wanted something where I plugin the DVD, install and it just > works. I also figured, that Dell would get me a better deal on the > paid version of SLES with bundled plugins for multimedia which is > always nicer. > > I don't think this is the time to be OSS zealots. What I want here is > for my hardware to work in Linux. If they choose SuSE, how will this > affect me as a Gentoo User? It probably still will, since those > drivers will be available upstream in the next version of the linux > kernel. > > Changes happen one step at a time. Time will tell > > On 3/14/07, Jean Azzopardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Aye, I know what you mean, but is Dell serious or is it just playing for >> time? And what about it's close allegiance with Microsoft? >> >> It would be good for all of us if Dell joins in, definitely...but I am >> suspicious of their motives, particularly if they chose SUSE. >> >> Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote: >> >>> Sometimes its good to hold your breath ... especially when a maltese >>> xarabank passes by :) >>> >>> I wouldn't be so negative. Time will tell. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MLUG-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> MLUG-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >> >> > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
