[CS-FSLUG] Fred's gonna love this

[N. Thompson]

On January 20, 2005 01:18 pm, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> >> Right now SUSE 9.2 pro is the #1 KDE oriented distribution I've
> >> tried, if
> >> all goes well I think it should win the distro shootout but thats up
> >> to Tim
> >>
> >> :-) .
> >
> > Yes.....it SHOULD, but then...........:) :) :)
>
> 	Don't count on it being KDE oriented winning it (nor losing it -- I
> just don't see that as an advantage so much as a neutral factor). :-)
> Anyway, we all know that Mandrake has better hardware detection and

Hardware detection isn't everything, Mandrake removed kdm from availability 
altogether so from now on the shutdown and restart options will no longer be 
available from KDE's log out menu, and of course Mandrake has made other 
modifications that I don't like, especially when it comes to their control 
centre which now has huge icon spacing and doesn't look very nice that way. 
SUSE also has more up to date software, Mandrake 10.1 seems to me like a 
minor upgrade from 10.0 compared to the differences between SUSE 9.1 and SUSE 
9.2. Finally I hope you haven't forgotten that Mandrake doesn't let you get 
to their download/mirrors page without agreeing to join the Mandrake Club 
whereas SUSE 9.2 now has the personal version available as a free download 
without expecting you to agree to any contracts, and I'm talking about the 
entire DVD not just a net-installer.

Have you compared the two yet over hardware support? I've found them to be on 
a level playing field from that standpoint, although SUSE supported my 3Com 
network card before Mandrake did, albeit not perfectly.

> SuSE still doesn't include apt, yum or uprmi. :-P

Thats what YaST is for, you can get to it either graphically or through the 
command line, if you want to install software from a console use `yast -i 
<packagename>` and it will install if its available.

> 	-Tim

After all is said and done whether SUSE wins the distro shootout or not won't 
stop me from using and liking it, I just think you've missed Mandrake taking 
away from the KDE desktop in order to add to Gnome which if you ask me is no 
way of being impartial to either desktop environment.

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