I have an idea to stop this sterile and silly bickering. Why doesn't everybody learn how to use a real distribution (one example that is briliant: gentoo), where you can easily and efficiantly build a system up to how you like and/or how your feeling at the moment. ie : Don't feel like alsa? USE="-alsa" emerge xorg-x11 kde voila! KDE is built without anything alsa in it or want to install alsa now? ALSA_CARDS="emu101k" emerge alsa-utils (build alsa-utils with only support for soundblaster like cards). (BTW: ccache is your friend, and smokingly easy to install on gentoo :) (note: these options are normallly put in one file). Then we can easily stop this bickering about what x person thought of y distribution when "they first tried it" z months ago, and questionable statements like "This distribution is better in europe" and everybody can have their linux system just the way they want. Simple :). Peace, Love and Gentoo Linux :). m Michael Cree wrote:
On 25/07/2004, at 9:19 PM, Craig Box wrote:
I wrote a SuseLinux page, incidentally a year ago Tuesday, that read "SuSE is a German Linux distribution that has the same sort of importance in Europe as RedHatLinux has in the rest of the world. It's never had much of a following in New Zealand."
Which is almost all that is objective on that web page.
I stand by all those statements; Aristotle wrote all the rest of it and he's in Germany!
So what if he's in Germany? What has that got to do with evaluating it? Linices should be evaluated on objective issues, not on the country you happen to live in.
Sounds like you like SUSE (and Novell like the all caps thing),
I have used Suse and find it ok. It also has it shortcomings which I have iterated in other postings, and have questioned whether it was the right choice for us. I do not have enough experience of other Linices to know whether they may be better. But I can sure can tell you that that webpage had practically nothing on it that could assist me in evaluating it.
and don't think all that much of Red Hat.
Redhat knowingly put out an official Linux distributed compiled with a faulty compiler. That, in my books, is an arrogance and a mistake of such catastrophic and unacceptable proportions that I will never ever consider Redhat again. They have demonstrated their ethic and extraordinary lack of judgement. They have done it once, and knowingly. They have lost my trust and my business.
Michael.