Re: [SLE] SUSE taking over the World! Finally!

From: Fergus Wilde (fwilde_at_chethams.org.uk)
Date: 11/30/04

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:08:41 +0000

    On Monday 29 November 2004 22:30, Sid Boyce wrote:
    > Allen wrote:
    > > http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/0/4662743FE8FF0106CC256F56007A25C7?O
    > >penDocument
    > >
    > > Long link but a good read. I've been plugging for SUSE since I first used
    > > it and nothing can touch it. The only thing that even comes CLOSE is
    > > Slackware. SUSE is really getting up to par on the business world, and I
    > > think it's great. And look at the screen shot towards the bottom!
    > > BEAUTIFUL!
    > >
    > > Take that XP, RedHat, Sco, And every other shitty OS.
    >
    > SuSE has been my main distro for quite a few years, I switched from
    > rolling my own from version 0.0x to MCC to SLS to Caldera to RedHat to
    > SuSE. Right now I'm using SuSE 9.2, Mandrake 10.1 and gentoo-2004.3 and
    > all are excellent. A word about gentoo - I'd heard it was fast and
    > excellent for learning about Linux. The install took ages (about 38
    > hours on a Athlon 700/256M) with much less than half an hour of my
    > keyboard time giving it hostname, IP addressing etc., if I was hoping to
    > learn about Linux from that, I'd have learned nothing as it did it all
    > by itself. Installing mythtv was as simple as typing "emerge mythtv" and
    > let it do the rest, I thought I'd try something outlandish like mythtv
    > just to see if I would hit a problem - none.
    > Linux has got too easy by and large.

    "Too easy to learn much from", you mean, or in another way? Just curious to
    know what you mean there, Sid. Haven't had a go with Gentoo, though i did
    build the 'Linux from scratch' from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ a while
    ago. I did learn a bit doing that, but being an old git I have largely
    forgotten it. It was interesting that the recipe was good enough for a
    know-nothing to follow and end up with a full Linux install, kde, etc.

    Cheers
    Fergus

    > Even as early as 1996, I installed
    > linux on a PC in the office, the other guys used it frequently to get
    > stuff on to a Solaris box.
    > Regards
    > Sid.
    > --
    > Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer
    > =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE===== 

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