Re: which linux to use for a 4 year old laptop??
From: hugh jass (hugh_jass_at_obvious.moonman.com)
Date: 09/20/03
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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:34:59 -0400
Thanks Big Daddy... I will check out SuSe!
hj.
-- ______________________ please remove the obvious from my email... "Big Daddy" <NoWay@NoBusiness.com> wrote in message news:3f6a742e$0$12620$a0465688@nnrp.fuse.net... : hugh jass wrote: : : > Hi there, : > My machine is a few years old. It is a P2-266MHz with 64Mb RAM. : > What Linux would you recommend to put on it. My main requirements are : > general office stuff and must be able to connect to router. Also want to : > get familiar with Linux and try some GIS software (Grass) on it before I : > invest in a newer machine for Linux purposes. : > thnx, hj. : : SuSE 8.2 or better yet, the upcoming (in October) SuSE 9.0! : : I'm a Linux _user_. What I mean by that is that I'm an everyday computer : user that uses Linux just as if it were Windows. I don't know the ins and : outs of Linux at all. I can hack config files confidently, but get me into : the relm of doing things from the Bash prompt, and I'm clueless except for : simple tasks such as 'make', 'make install', 'su', etc. I've flirted with : Linux for quite sometime now, using Red Hat as new as 7.3, Mandrake as new : as 8.2, and now I use SuSE. This is my second SuSE release installed and : now it's my main computer - much newer Windows computer sits idle mostly. : : Red Hat wasn't bad at all. It was, however, very Gnome-centric (I prefer : KDE) and it lacked a lot of the software titles that come with either : Mandrake or SuSE. It did do one thing I liked better than the others: the : fonts always looked great in Red Hat 7.3. I've had mixed success with font : anti-aliasing in either MDK or SuSE. However, it just didn't feel : comfortable to me. It seemed like a system for a more seasoned user than : Mandrake or SuSE. : : When I started using Mandrake, I thought I found the Holy Grail of Linux. : However, Mandrake began asking me to join MandrakeClub for a fee and once : even asked all users to just send them a donation to help them with : short-term finance problems. I really didn't like that at all. I bought my : distro. I'd always test-use the download version, only to purchase the full : deal when it was released shortly afterward. I shouldn't have to send them : another cent! On top of that, it seemed that Mandrake was a little buggy : compared to Red Hat. "A little" is being kind... Then I had a problem with : them, trying to purchase an upgrade from them. I won't go into details, but : it ruined my taste for Mandrake Linux. : : I didn't want to go back to Red Hat, nor was I going to give another penny : to Mandrake. Enter SuSE. I felt more comfortable with a major distro than, : say, Slackware. I'm sure Slackware is a fine Linux, and SuSE was originally : based on it, so please, no flames. Anyway, I gave SuSE 8.1 Professional a : shot. The first time I booted it and found that there wasn't a single piece : of hardware other than my nVidia card to configure, I fell in love. Then I : ran YaST... All my administration needs in one simple to use package. Then, : I updated with YOU (YaST Online Update). It even updated KDE for me! (I : don't think it does that anymore except for security updates and such) This : was bliss... I've never regretted my jump to SuSE. I wish I'd found out how : great it was before Mandrake ever got a single dollar from me. : : Trust me, SuSE is absolutely the way to go. However, I know that Mandrake : has a fine, very usable system and so does Red Hat. Both have made advances : since I used them. Mandrake now has a very YaST-like administration setup. : You really won't be disappointed in any of them, really. However, I do : conclude that SuSE is much better than either from a non-power user : standpoint. :
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