Hi!

Please provide additional info on why suse 8 is not good.

Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Oh boy, here comes the flame war...
> 
> OK, lets try to make it nice and easy...
> 
> SuSE does not release ISO's for X86 machines - only 1 ISO which is a "live 
> evaluation" version which means - you boot from the CD and u use linux, but 
> you cannot install it on the hard drive and use it.
> 
> What left for you are 2 options:
> 
> 1. to buy the 7 CD's (and 1 DVD) version - I think it costs something like $60 
> or so - not sure.
> 2. download the floppy and install the rest from the net - a really big and 
> long download/install.. good option if you have a high bandwidth connection 
> and you're already connected to the net (using gateway)
> 
> SuSE 8.0 also offers a nice FTP install - but see my remarks above on option 
> 2.
> 
> As for how good is SuSE - they're very good - as long as you don't try SuSE 
> 8.0 - SuSE 8.0 is a disaster - I have heard about it's problems from all over 
> - KDE developers, SuSE users, IHV's, ISV's, newsgroups - just from 
> everywhere, so if you're planning to use SuSE - use the latest 7.x and 
> install KDE 3.0 on top of it (if you want to use KDE 3).

As a person that used and still use (at work) SuSe 8.0 I have to 
disagree. It behaves well (except a stupid bug in YasT2) and work fine. 
I don't understand shere is the problem ? KDE 3.0 works ok. Hebrew 
support too. Why do you say that suse 8 is bad ?


> 
> Thanks,
> Hetz
> 
> On Thursday 11 July 2002 23:01, Arie Folger wrote:
> 
>>Do you use Suse? Did you download it? Does Suse provide iso images for
>>downloading (couldn't find it on a mirror)? Are all the 7 cds that make up
>>the Suse professional or deluxe or whatever version available for download?
>>
>>How does Suse compare with RH?
>>
>>Arie Folger
> 
> 
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