Hi Andre,
Very interessant synthese. Thanks. It seems it would be a good idea to
be back to Suse (i used it from the 5.3 to 9.2 distros, in the past,
at the time it was the most usable on the different platforms i had to
do with, Yast behind... :-). Never had only one problem to run MC nor
Rev on my Suse configs ;-)
Kind Regards,
Pierre
Le 3 févr. 10 à 17:43, Andre Garzia a écrit :
Hello Folks,
arriving late on the thread.
I used many linux distros till I finally settled on OpenSUSE 11.2. I
find
Ubuntu very charming and used it from Gusty Gibbon till Karmic Koala
(can't
remember version numbers but I love those silly names, was waiting for
hungry hippo), it was fun to use and it was the first Gnome desktop
that I
could actually understand, me being a KDE person from the start.
What moved
me away from ubuntu was the mess that is sound under linux, it is a
hit or
miss, or it works or you're in very murky waters. PulseAudio, ALSA,
OSS,
they are all crap and conflict with each other. Video cards are also
cumbersome, my PC has an onboard intel chipset that till today is
not well
supported. When I tried openSUSE, it just worked out of the box both
video
and sound. It was more polished than ubuntu for me, I really liked
their
gnome theme.
It was somewhat a struggle to move from apt to zypper but they work
basically the same, the package names change though and that is the
hard
part. Revolution works well on OpenSUSE and with that in mind, I
decided
that SUSE was the way to go for me.
Now on the topic of creating our own distro, I did that! I created
"Andre
SUSE Distro" using Suse Studio service. Suse Studio is the most
awesome and
elegant web service I ever seen. It basically allow you to choose from
multiple packages and everything, to configure all you want and then
it will
build you an ISO or a VMWare image. You can even try your system
online thru
a web VNC session, you don't even need to install it at home. Using
this
system I created an almost barebones version of suse that would pack
RevEnterprise and RevWeb (that old alpha one). I haven't told anyone
about
it because it packs RevEnterprise with my license, I made this system
basically for my own consumption, it allows me to move from bare
bones pc to
fully configured and ready linux with a single DVD.
http://susestudio.com/
If people here are so inclined, I can try to build a simple suse
that would
bundle Rev without a license (so you would need to put a license on
first
run) and some useful tools. You could run it as a virtual machine
under
vmware or virtualbox and thus test your software under linux without
the
need to a full linux hardware.
:D
Cheers
andre
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