Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros
Jim Kuzdrall
gnhlug at intrel.com
Tue Dec 20 17:02:00 EST 2005
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
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