[wplug] purchasing distros

Sat May 3 22:11:51 EDT 2003

Well.....I've now spent a full 24 hours with Suse 8.2......I've installed it on my laptop and on a desktop.....and I have to tell you, I'm a little disappointed.....KDE 3.1 is nice......but it just doesn't seem to have the mature feel that RedHat has.......I admit, RedHat was the first distro I used and the one I have used the most....my last two RedHat installs have been flawless.....and I had a pile of problems with the Suse install....for example....the battery monitor just would not stay working.....it would crash everytime.....I had video problems too....I'm no linux expert....and maybe that's why I had more problems.....but that probably makes me a good test case too....

-----Original Message-----
From: Hoss [mailto:hoss at telerama.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 1:42 AM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] purchasing distros

lookie here
http://torrentse.cx/index.php?type=7
i'm getting it now. can't verify that it's not fool's gold personally, but
everything i've gotten off that site has been good before.

Hoss

On Sat, 3 May 2003, R.E.Coutch wrote:

> SuSE is my favorite distro.
>
> I'm chomping at the bit to get 8.2 because the 7.3 I'm running is
> becoming outdated.
>
> SuSE has MANY similarities to RedHat.  SuSE is RPM based and many RedHat
> and other distro's RPM's will work on SuSE.
>
> The main difference is SuSE's use of the /opt directory to store Gnome,
> KDE, StarOffice, Mozilla, Netscape, etc when RedHat will
> place these in /usr/bin or /usr/X11.
>
> SuSE uses rc.config for system startup scripts where RedHat relies more
> on the System V method of /etc/rc.d/__runlevel__  scripts.
>
> It's a lot easier to jump from another RPM based distro to SuSE than to
> say something like FreeBSD.
>
> I really got hooked on SuSE because of all the desktop software it came
> with even in the Personal Edition.
>
> With 8.2, the configuration tool YAST2 now has a feature similar to
> RedHat's RHN updater.
> It will check for updates and notify you when they are available.
>
> No demo accounts for online updating, it's all free for all SuSE users.
> None of those annoying come back later because the demo accounts have
> been disabled due to high bandwidth usage messages.
>
> SuSE is the only distro I know of that doesn't offer it's CD's online
> for free.
> You can download a Live demo CD and the RPM's are all there on the ftp
> site but no ISO's.
>
>
> Let me know how you like it and "Have Fun",
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> David Gerard Matthews wrote:
>
> > I used to use SuSE.  The last SuSE release I tried was 7.3.  It was
> > the first Linux distro I ever used, and it was pretty good.  The only
> > reason I switched was because I wanted to use the Planet CCRMA
> > packages from Stanford (www-ccrma.stanford.edu) which are packaged for
> > RH.  But in my experience SuSE is still the most loaded distro you can
> > buy in box form.
> >
> > On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 06:56  PM, Teodorski, Chris wrote:
> >
> >> Well....I went out and bought a copy of Suse 8.2 at
> >> Compusa........I've never used Suse.....I'm curious to see what I
> >> think.....
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: David Gerard Matthews [mailto:dgm4+ at pitt.edu]
> >> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 6:33 PM
> >> To: wplug at wplug.org
> >> Subject: Re: [wplug] purchasing distros
> >>
> >>
> >> Boxed distros generally include stickers.  My desktop box currently
> >> sports a RedHat sticker on a spot where a SuSE sticker used to be.
> >> -dgm
> >>
> >> On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 02:40  PM, Teodorski, Chris wrote:
> >>
> >>> Who sells Linux bumper stickers or just stickers?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: John Strange [mailto:john at strangeness.org]
> >>> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 2:37 PM
> >>> To: wplug at wplug.org
> >>> Subject: Re: [wplug] purchasing distros
> >>>
> >>> I'd be interested in knowing where you got that as well.
> >>>
> >>> - john
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 13:18, squeegy-wplug at squeegy.org wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> One way I put my money where my mouth is is with a linux open source
> >>>> credit card 1% of everything I spend is donated to the open source
> >>>> movement and I get a cool penguin on my credit card.  it has got a
> >>>> few store keeps to ask questions.  helps spend the word.
> >>>>
> >>>>> So.....I was wondering how many people have actually purchased a
> >>>>> boxed copy of a distro......I'm thinking about putting my money
> >>>>> where my mouth is......and just wondered how many others >>>
> >>>>> have........
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