Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone reccomends ubuntu, maybe I don't remember the sys-admin, I strongly
reccomend SuSE, get 9.3 not 10.
Recommending a previous version of a distribution over its current version
is a pretty poor recommendation. That means the distribution is going backwards.
Normally I would agree, but in the case of SuSE I have also recommended
9.3 over 10.0 to newbies.
The reason for this is ease of use, most desktop users want dvd playback
and other media formats to just work, like they just work in 9.3.
With 10.0, novell in their wisdom have decided not only to leave out
libdvdcss, but also go a step further and prevent the media player from
ever being able to play certain proprietary codecs, you have to
completely uninstall the media player, find another yast repository that
supports other builds and reinstall the player, and then go get
libdvdcss aswell as other codecs. That is just simply too much to ask of
a newbie.
If I were to use SuSE (I'm an Ubuntu user) I would use 10.0 and gets
things to work, but for a newbie, 9.3 pro every time, just less hassle.
I have set my mother-in-law and my father up on Debian machines. If I was
to do it again I would probably choose ubuntu. I have run two versions
of ubuntu and AFAIAC the latter one was an improvement over the earlier one.
Yes, I always put people onto Ubuntu by default. Standard install and
then run automatix and away they go. Its only when someone specifically
want SuSE and they are very green, I tell them 9.3.
Tuxta
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