Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros

[Jon maddog Hall]

gnhlug at intrel.com said:
> I gave up on Red Hat  when they went to Blue Curve or whatever.

Red Hat never was behind KDE, and in fact was one of the original instigators
of GNOME, mostly due to the issues of QT and Trolltech.

I think both desktops (KDE and GNOME) have strengths, which is why I do not
"favor" either.  I am not sure which one will "win", and the competition between
them is good, from my viewpoint.

>"I gave up on Red Hat when they went to Blue Curve or whatever."

Blue Curve (or whatever) was to meet a need of better integration of GNOME
into Red Hat's systems.

>     I don't have time to keep fiddling with ever-changing installation
> procedures and user interface changes.  I want to make money by running  my
> business applications on the computer, not play with it like a toy.

I have seen steady progress with SuSE over the past five years.  That is what
I want.  Ubuntu, in my estimation, is a fine distribution, and growing very
fast.  But Ubuntu supported GNOME very strongly at first, and now seem to be
supporting KDE, but that may only be an illusion.  It is just too soon, IMHO,
to make the call of what Ubuntu will be, if "fiddling with every-changing
installation procedures and user interface changes" is not the way you want
to go.

md
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