Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros

[Jim Kuzdrall]

On Monday 19 December 2005 07:06 pm, Richard A Sharpe wrote:
> Just a query to the group, I was thinking of putting a Linux Distro
> on my HP Laptop and was wondering how SuSE 10.0 stacks up, the laptop
> has wired and wireless LAN DVD/CD/RW 512m memory Athlon 3400 64 bit
> cpu.

    I haven't tried SuSE 10, but I got SuSE 9.3 Pro running on this Dell 
Latitude c400 laptop, a Dell Inspiron 2650, and an MSI K7D Master-L 
motherboard system.  Each took a mere 300 hours to get working.  (Just 
kidding.)

    I have been choosing SuSE because I like KDE.  The desktop makes 
sense to me, and it runs all my business applications without a fuss.  

    Since I use the Internet only for technical data retrieval and a bit 
of email, dialup has served just fine.  However, one thing has thrown 
me twice now.  SuSE activates fetchmail by default.  If you like kppp 
and set it up, fetchmail keeps grabbing the modem and hiding a portion 
of your email from you!

    mutt finds the snatched email, so it isn't completely lost.  There 
must be a better way (suggestions welcome), but I stop fetchmail by 
commenting out all URLs in /etc/fetchmailrc.  That was the only problem 
I had with the installation of 9.3. 

Jim Kuzdrall