New OS

With my beloved SuSe getting some age on it, and support not being what I
would have liked (Using both 10.2 OpenSuse and Novell Enterprise 10) I went
in search of another OS.

I tried both Kubuntu and SimplyMepis. Let's just say that not having cut my
teeth on a Debian system system, I was not all that comfortable with either
- both have good points, but both have problems also. (Kubuntu updater
erred out on my initial download from the repositories and I could not get
Synaptic. I rebooted but kept getting an error message that the updater
database was being accessed by another app and it would not allow me to
access anything in the repositories. Mepis was okay but . . .

A friend told me to try PCLinuxOS before I install ed SLED on my machine
that had had OpenSuSe 10.2 on it. I like it, a lot. Tools are great, it
loads fast, the install is dead easy (DiskDrake is the best thing ever
invented to manage a HD - IMHO). My only item on the "wish list" is that
it contained "Kinternet." I am on a "mom and pop co-op" with manual
connect on DSL. "Kinternet" handles that wonderfully well and I wonder why
more distros do not use it. The only place I have seen it is in SuSe.

Deb
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