Yeah, I top post...sue me (to the picky posting czars, not you in particular Bob)
OpenSUSE is pretty good. I am the opposite though. I always find my self going back to Ubuntu/Kubuntu. The only thing I don't like about Suse is YUM... man what a time waster! Some one recently told me theres another package manager available for SUSE now called Zypper or Smart (was a long dicussion and I can't remember which lol) that is a lot quicker......I look forward to trying it out. I have OpenSUSE discs from 10.1 to 11.0... I un-installed it just before talking to the guy about the faster package manager he uses. One thing to remember.... It's Richard Stallman that's the psycho about commercial software is evil.... not Linus Trovald ( he doesn't seem to care much for Stallman from what I can tell.) Linus says hey if you can make money from open source great! That's why the Linux kernel is still under the GPL v2 and not v3. Curious, What book did you read? As far as I know he only wrote one book *"Just for Fun - The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary"*. He never mentioned a favorite distro. The only time SUSE was mentioned was when he said "To keep from favoring any one version of Linux, I use RedHat at work and SUSE, A European version, at home." Linus never said making money in open source was bad. He actually was happy to see what started as a personal hobby of his, was creating millionaires across the world. In fact Linus use to use a proprietary program (Bit Keeper) in the production and maintenance of the kernel until not long ago when he replaced it with a program he had written himself. Bob Hodges wrote: > > I have never been disappointed with SuSE Linux, and have been running it > since the late 90s. Every time a new flavor of Linux comes along, I try > it for a while, some longer than others. However, I always end up > running back home to SuSE (I always buy the full commercial versions, I > never download the limited free versions). I know Ubuntu is incredibly > popular, lots of community support, also follows the quality standards > of Debian. Avoid Fedora unless you enjoy masturbating with a cheese > grater. > > As for "commercialism", don't use that as a criteria for selecting an > operating system. Dogmatic or "religious" beliefs about software or the > companies that produce/release it will not have any bearing on how well > the software performs or not. Open source will not save the world, and > 90% of the Linux zealots out there would by lying their asses off if > they said they didn't have a Windows box sitting nearby. To be > accurate, however, the best-running versions of anything have ALWAYS > been commercial versions or from commercial entities (i.e., Red Hat, > SuSE, etc). Just ask Linus Torvalds, the inventor of Linux who is > probably the grandfather of this whole "free love" philosophy of Linux > and open source. You can ask him all about it, however you might find > it difficult, as Torvalds is elusive as he sits in his mansion getting > paid billions for (yup, you guessed it) Linux. I read his book, in > which he both preaches the splendors of open source and how evil > commercialism is while at the same time pointing out how much he loves > how Linux has made him filthy stinking rich. One of the biggest > hypocrites I've ever come across. Open Source preacher on the outside, > absolutely loving the profits of commercialism on the inside. > > I recommend OpenSuSE v11, it's fantastic (SuSE is also the version > Torvalds himself prefers according to his book). Extremely powerful, > has always had vastly superior device driver detection and everything > working out of the box. Fantastic configuration and management via the > YAST utility (Control panel if you will). OpenSuSE v11.1 is soon to > come out if it isn't already. > > Bob > > From: [email protected] > <mailto:LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of Bob > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 1:42 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Which Distribution? And Why? > > Why did you choose the distribution of Linux that you did from all the > other choices? > > There are, as you know, over 300 flavors of Linux available. A handful > are well known (like Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, Debian, Gentoo), > and there are many that are offshoots of those. Each has its strong > points and weak points. > > I've been trying to decide which to put on my new system (a Q9300 > [Core 2 Quad] based Intel processor on a LAN Party DK mobo). > > I like the support of Ubuntu, the past pleasures and ease of Mandriva, > the power of Fedora and SUSE, etc.. I don't like the (administrative) > limitations on Ubuntu, the commercialism of Mandriva, the experimental > nature of Fedora, etc.. And I've always wanted to get Gentoo onto my > system, but have never had a completely successful installation (on > previous systems). > > Any suggestions, comments, but most of all the reason you chose the > distribution that you did, will be appreciated. Thanks. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! 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