On Saturday 18 March 2006 01:42 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: > On Friday, 17 March 2006 18:00, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > > On March 17, 2006 05:14, Paul wrote: > > > > Me I'm not interested in financially supporting just another Distro > > > > vendor along the lines of RH and Novell. > > > > > > I think I am going to testdrive Ubuntu and OpenSuse on a spare disk... > > > > > > Paul > > > > I gave Kubuntu (I'm a KDE kinda guy) 5.10 a try before PCLinuxOS, and > > wasn't impressed: > > <snip> > > > But don't let me dissuade you from anything. Ubuntu 6.04 should be out > > soon, and perhaps will address some of these problems. I'd be > > particularly interested in hearing your experience with OpenSuse. I > > watched their xgl demo video (http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/), > > and it's pretty cool. > > I (or should I say my employers) have had a mail/proxy server running on > OpenSUSe 10.1 pre-whatever since last November and it has not given any > trouble.at all, except for YAST mangling my Apache/Squirrelmail setup. > > Everything works smoothly, and it is pretty easy to install. I don't like > the way SUSe puts certain configuration files in odd places. Perhaps it's > just that I am used to a certain way of doing things. Anyway, it works > well, although it is not my first choice as a desktop distribution. > > Ubuntu is very much like its progenitor, Debian, with more of an emphasis > on Desktop use, of course. (It can be used as a server, just type "server" > when you boot the install cd), but, like Debian, I don't care for its lack > of a unifying configuration tool along the lines of MCC (drakconf). I > suppose you could say that Webmin is a useful tool. Having said that, I can > say that Ubuntu is a very competently designed distribution, especially for > newbies, but I don't think it is quite as user-friendly as PC-LinuxOS or > Mandr*. > > cheers > Duncan > >
Hi All I am amassed that I am still subscribed I thought I had managed to do so last week when I made the posting about unsubscribing. I started last October trying to upgrade this Mandrake 10.1 system. I had earlier tried LE and 2005 and gone back to 10.1 as it is more friendly to my laptop. What I need in a desktop distribution is a very large distribution will all the packages one normally finds there and the ability to additional packages by RPM as I am no teckie. I do not compile programs. I started with Mandriva but could not obtain what I needed with out paying. Being broke that is out. At least for something that I can download elsewhere for free. I then tried SuSE, Fedora, Asiaonics, Scientific Linux, Ubuntu, Kubuntu and I attempted to try Debian and OpenSolaris. For my usage I found the following. Top two are SuSE and Fedora are the top two. Scientific Linux is a take off on Red Hat Enterprise and is very good but is 2 years behind Fedora. Fedora, I simply do not like the screen presentation. SuSE one must configure through their GUI or you will have issues with operations. For the lesser ones that loaded and ran. Ubuntu is Gnome based and Kubuntu is KDE bases and which are like a take off on Kipling's East is East and West is West and the two shall never meet Gnome is Gnome and KDE is KDE and the two will never meet in Ubuntu or Kubuntu meaning that all those nice Gnome packages I like to run under KDE are simply not there. Asiaonics, Now here is a screwed up distribution if there ever has been one Installs well but there are a few issue like no means to add a user during installation. One must log in as user after log in. No means to add a user bu means of GUI after installation. Did not try to add user from command line as I had given up on this distribution by that point. Scientific Linux is much better. And, a complete lack of packages in the distribution. Only thing I could see that this distribution brings to the table is oriental language support and since I speak no oriental language that was of no interest to me. Now for the others. Those that simply would not run. Now one must realize that this is all these distributions were tried in my one and only tower meaning the same set of hardware so there are no hardware issues. Only issue of one distribution lacking or not lacking the hardware. Debian, loads the first disk reboots and starts installation of the second disk. Not allowed to add any additional packages in installation. Computer comes up running command line only. Video card not recognized; no GUI. And, this is irrelevant of stable, testing, or development or CDs or Download installation. Tried the all. They all failed installation. If I can not install it in my equipment regardless of any of its other merits it ain't any damn good to me. OpenSolaris, did not get past first screen in installation. System simply refused to even start installation process. Now this could have been because our ISP had issues that week, another distribution I downloaded failed too and had to be downloaded a second time, or it could be an OpenSolaris issue. Anyway I had registered for the OpenSolaris BB by that time and was surprised at the lack of traffic. The fact that the BB is dead and there are very few BB tells me that this is not a popular distribution even though it is a take off on Solaris. So this distribution is not for me. Which brings one back to SuSE and Fedora. Sotl ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
