[CS-FSLUG] Plans to go back to Mandrake

[N. Thompson]

Before I say anything, I should point out to some people on the list as proof 
that I can stick with one distribution that I'm still using SUSE Linux 9.1 
Professional and its been quite a while now.

I am considering going back to Mandrake Linux however when 10.1 is released if 
I have a fairly enjoyable experience trying it because SUSE has some 
interesting performance issues and a few quirks that I also find unfortunate. 
Don't get me wrong, this isn't because SUSE is bad or because its got a lot 
of serious bugs its just for me Mandrake seems to run much better and this 
could be anything from what hardware is in my computer to my own perception 
of things. After all Mandrake was the very first distribution I started using 
and its also the one I've been using the longest so I'm used to it.

If there is one thing I have to credit to each distribution its that SUSE has 
a really professional feel to it the whole way through, from the installation 
to the desktop to post install configuration everything is where it should be 
and everything except the GTK applications look nice and integrate well into 
the distribution (even OpenOffice.org looks like part of KDE). Mandrake 
however is a distribution I'm more comfortable with, I know where I can get 
software which I cannot find for SUSE, I've found that Mandrake 10.0 has 
better performance then SUSE 9.1 and that will be a real plus if Mandrake 
goes on to the next version with a continued speed advantage over SUSE which 
still needs to learn how to exploit some of the new features of the 2.6 
kernel.