I'm playing with a number of distros as I want to find an ideal little distro that is as easy as pie for a newbie. I tried the live CD, and ... how do i say it nicely. .... not a pretty experience, 2 machines wouldn't even boot to X, and the third did but no mouse, (I think the KVM switch might have upset something,) all these machine work perfectly with Knoppix, morphix Mepis (as Live CD) and PC Linux OS (live cd based on mandrake) Later on I'll have another play to see if I can get a better result. Also Suse has a reputation of not doing media well, I hoped this would be gone by now, but reviews I have read make it seem that it remains unchanged. I'm working on a test list of what I plan to do to test a number of Linuxes as home users desktop PC's I'm guessing what the average low budget user will do with a PC, but based on my experiences of the last 2 weeks, its not much. I will be doing a full install on an old dse terminator, these came with mandrake 9 on them so its very linux friendly, right down to the ham modem. which should be fun. I will be dual booting with Win ME so that the experience is as close to what a new user should expect. I will also install and older So far I plan to do: Suse Fedora Mandrake Mepis Knoppix (installed) PC Linux OS CollegeLinux (its what I use) but it will get an honest review warts and all. Yoper (same here, even if I had issues in the past) I will also do Feather and morphix gui-light, installed as a desktop, just for older machines. at the end as some pc's still dont work on I686 distros. and choice is nice. I am looking at either a 500Mhz K5 or a 200MHz P1mmx (Laptop) for this ... I may even get brave and do both. I'll wiki the results, but its more for my own use and he results will also be posted on a new website I am working on. Each will get a day or 2 to do its thing. and then get replaced with the next so I only expect 2 distros per week, so dont ask me to do too many, but if I missed a really good desktop distro let me know. as I will be comparing them and would hate to miss a really good one. But the tests will be really easy to duplicate so you can do them on your favourite distro and compare the results yourself. They will be compared after the install, I will assume a newbie will not do the install themself. so Its really only how it works as a desktop that I need to consider. so If I missed the best desktop distro, drop me a note. And ... why am I blowing away my perfectly good CollegeLinux 2.5 install? .. the 2.6 pre-Alpha is due out very soon, and this is the machine I will be testing and debugging on, so its about to be blown away anyway. There may never be a better time. Have fun.
I had a look at the review on this distro, From what I read, it seems ideal for a newbie.The only negative comments I found was that dvd movie play can be a real hassle to set up.. Boot time is a little longer than some other distros but that is not really so important is it? If anyone has got this distro installed I would like to see some opinion/critique, also if you are a new user or a seasoned Linuxer.
I loaded SuSE onto my desktop here at Uni. What an awesome distro... Very easy to load up. Thanks again.