[CS-FSLUG] Fred's gonna love this

[Fred A. Miller]

On Thu January 20 2005 2:46 pm, N. Thompson wrote:
> 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.

Further, I haven't kept track, but there are LOTS of PAST MDK users who had 
the latest release and had hardware detection issues......ALL are now running 
SUSE 9.2. SUSE isn't perfect, but better than anything else in this and other 
areas.

> 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.

Fred

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