On Sunday 14 January 2007 04:17, HG wrote: > Hi! > > I've been wanting to replace windows at home with SUSE for some time > now. I've been running SUSE since 9.0 on some computer. Current 10.2 > is probably the best so far (although the software management / update > systems still do not work as well as they did for example in 9.3. - > well, at least for me they do not work).
For this, try one of the Alternatives if you wish. I've become a convert from YOU to SMART. http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2006/05/how-to-install-and-use-smart-on-suse.html http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=SMART_Package_Manager It works quite well (except behind my corporate firewall) and allows you to add all your optional repositories to the install routines. > > So far it seems that with SUSE you can do email, web browsing (with > some problems) and basic things like that. Thanks to Guru and Packman, > even media works somehow. And of course, developer things are there, > but this is not your normal home things (rather your work). Basic > office is there (although, the OO in 10.2 can not open word docs as > well as the OO in 10.0 did...). Huh? I don't have 10.2, but OOo in 10.1 works just fine for most Word/Excel/Powerpoint documents. The only sticking points are Powerpoint embedded sounds which don't work and Excel macros. > > But it's still far behind WindowsXP and OS X. In what manner? I switched to Linux - and went through the pain of learning BECAUSE of WinXP and its pathetic inability to allow the user to do anything in a logical manner. In what way do you say SUSE or GNU/Linux is "far behind" Windows XP or OSX? (IIRC, OSX is actually BSD.) > And as Vista is coming, > it'll be further again. Not from what I've seen. I have had Vista on a few test systems and cannot stand it. It is even more a backwards step than XP was. > And what Vista brings on is DRM. Of course, in > short time, OS X will have the same protected hardware paths for HD > Video. Linux will not. Yes, I hate the DRM things! And I love Linux > for not having them. But this is one more reason why SUSE will not > make it to the general desktop at home. Yes, the DRM and closed-source codecs are an issue. SUSE is not positioned at the home market (at least here in teh US) so they don't really care. You can certianly purchase or download whatever you want to enable multimedia. Or, you can go with a 'home-friendly' distribution like Lindows, which allows you to purchase licenced multimedia players. I see this may be part of your point. If you want to advocate SUSE at home, then talk to Novell. I think they are focused on SUSE at work. <snip> -- kai - [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com www.filesite.org || www.donutmonster.com wo ist der ort für den ehrlichsten kuss ich weiss, dass ich ihn für uns finden muss... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
