[CS-FSLUG] Linux Today - Is desktop Linux too fragmented to succeed? A friend tells it like it is!!

[Fred A. Miller]

Davo Smith wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
>> Davo Smith wrote:
>>> [Lots of good points about what is needed to get Linux to take off on
>>> the desktop]
>>>
>>>>        Thoughts?
>>> To be honest, at this moment what I would most like is for Ubuntu 9.04
>>> not to have broken several things that worked fine in Ubuntu 8.10
>>> (like my TV out, mencoder recording TV, processor being at 100% all
>>> the time).
>>>
>>> Before anyone asks, I haven't filed any bug reports yet, as I was
>>> going to try out a clean install first - but that didn't load the
>>> nVidia drivers or Firefox...
>>>
>>> Maybe it's time to try out a different distro (as I've not tried that
>>> many others than Ubuntu).
>> Download the openSUSE 11.1 DVD iso....burn it and give it a try.
> 
> I've got one sitting on the desk in front of me already (it was on a
> magazine a couple of issues back). Will give it a try on my spare HD,
> but not totally convinced about RPM-based systems (have been very
> happy with using DEB files so far).

Usage is the same....they're both a "system" and they both work.

Fred

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