Re: Should I dump Suse?
From: Stefan Viljoen (rylan_at_-deletethis-intekom.co.za)
Date: 05/20/04
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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 22:07:46 +0200
Chris Carlen wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Let me start by saying that I have been using Linux as a desktop OS for
> 95% of my computing since kernel ver. 1.2.8, Slackware 3.x, before
> Slackware 95. I learned to use the CLI and administer my system very
> well, but I also like to work with a GUI.
>
> So I've been with Linux a long time, almost 10 years! Why did I do
Hi!
I use Linux (RedHat) mainly for raytracing. I think you may have been
polluted by Suse - I recently had to help a friend install Suse 9 on his
PC, and he is having lots of problems. Maybe I am biased being a RedHat
fan, but the Suse desktop seems "overweight" and very slow. RedHat 9 in
comparison, being a contemporary distro, is quite fast and IMHO very very
reliable - my 1.8GHz P4 system is constantly reasonably heavily (average of
about 4 or 5) loaded with at least three or four PovRay processes going all
the time.
Even with those, my normal usage of the system is only slightly diminished -
KDE is still quite fast (i. e. a response to a click within one second) and
most applications except OO open in about the same time (say two seconds
longer than normal) when tracing three images in the background.
Additionally, I used to work in the local equivalent of a 911 center and we
had Rh7.2 running a proprietary app in there on a network with Windows
machines - I also did some part time work at an Internet company where the
webserver was a RedHat 6.5 machine - I have found all RedHat distros I have
been exposed to or that I have used so far EXTREMELY reliable, quite easy
to configure and up to speed with contemporary hardware (i. e. Rh9). But I
have too have not been terribly impressed by Suse.
I would seriously suggest first trying a recent RedHat distro (Fedora is
quite good, I gather) before dumping Linux alltogether.
I understand the Windows / Linux applications issue - in some areas I agree
that Windows does have the edge. I am in the same situation that you are -
there are certain Windows apps that I just cannot do without - but quite
regularly nowadays I am finding a reasonable Linux equivalent. I can only
hope that one day in the not too distant future Linux will be able to offer
exactly the same or much the same classes and types off apps that average
ppl need. Stay tuned - don't tune out Linux!
Regards,
-- --- Stefan Viljoen Software Support Technician Polar Design Solutions
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