On Sunday 04 September 2005 12:27, Christian Pedaschus wrote: Well first of all I would like to thank all for their input on the various distros. I've been using Linux off an on for years going back to Red Hat 3.3... back when installing linux could be a weekend endeavor. After giving up on RH back around 6 or so I started using Suse 4.xx I guess more because it was a gift than anyting else. I dabbled with Mandrake and a few other distros for a year or so but never really found any that impressed me enough to stop using Suse. But over the last few Suse versions it always seems like there is something preventing me from running an application or doing what I would like to.
I'll probably have the same or similar issues with which ever version I chose but I'll chalk that up to the learning curve of a new distro. I'm guessing I'll probably download gentoo to an older laptop and see how it runs on a machine that has suffered MS bloat for a long time now. Thanks again for all of the input > > dienekes wrote: > > >Christian Pedaschus wrote: > > > > > > > >>i'm using gentoo and i have absolutely no probs (sometimes i'm really > >>surprised what problems some users have...) > >>but i also read the docs and listen to the devs and so don't run > >>extra_modules and such things, perhaps this is a reason, too ;) > >> > >>but my advice would be to check other distros, there are a lot of nice > >>ones out there in comparision to suse (if it's the only one you used > >>'till now) > >>and if you're not the uber-linux-pro i would recommend gentoo, because > >>it helped me to understand the linux-internals and bash the easy way > >>very quickly... > >> > >>not ment offensive to all the debian/redhat/putyourdistrohere users, > >>everybody should use what he likes, but for this, you have to try and see ;) > >> > >>greets, chris > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >supposing a less deep understanding of users using other distros isn't > >fair, and therefore its better to avoid that. > > > > > never ment it this way. > i am a less deep understanding user and thought he might be one too > (shouldn't making assumptions, yes, but it sounded like...), and i > wanted to help him gain more understanding, which was not possible for > me using suse (which i don't count to the 'good' distros, personal > opinion) and so i just wanted to point out, that there are a lot of > interesting distros out there which are worth a try, nothing more... > sorry if someone felt offended by this as it was not my goal... > > yesterday was a bad email-day, way too much beer, shouldn't write mails > on such days... > > greets, chris > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
