[wplug] suse

[Coutch, Robert]

I run SuSE 7.3 on my desktop PC at home.
 
I love it !!
 
I picked up the Personal Edition which is loaded with desktop
type software, but light on power server software (most of which can be
downloaded from SuSE's ftp site).
 
My edition/version came with StarOffice 5.2 but I'm also running
OpenOffice.org1.0.
 
I really like Yast2's online update feature.
 
The machine is a dual boot with SuSE 7.3 and Red Hat 8.0.
 
In order to get Red Hat working, I had to swap my Yamaha sound card for a
Sound Blaster.
I'm just testing out the RedHat so I'll go back to my old sound card when
I'm done.
 
I just downloaded the updates for KDE3 and Gnome2 from SuSE's ftp site this
weekend and will attempt to install them next weekend.
 
I really appreciate SuSE's inclusion of JFS, XFS, Reiserfs as well as ext2/3
that can be chosen at install time.
RedHat supports other filesystems but tries to force you to use ext3. I like
Reiserfs so I have to use fdisk and mkreiserfs when I'm installing RedHat.
 
SuSE also makes setting up LVM fairly simple.
 
SuSE comes with TwoFish (encrypted loop device) encryption which I use to
keep personal files protected.
I can't find this for RedHat.
 
I've been tossing around the idea of upgrading but I hear kernel 2.6 is due
around mid '03 so I going to wait till after it's released.
 
-Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: R.E.Coutch [mailto:coutchre at usaor.net]
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 5:01 PM
To: coutchre at tvratings.com
Subject: [wplug] suse


hello,
 
does anyone use suse?  it is seldom mentioned by wplug members.  Any
comments about it?
 
Paul




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