Re: Mandrake vs Suse
From: David Jones (dj_at_nospam.com)
Date: 07/12/04
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:04:03 GMT
nessuno wrote:
> Bruce Coryell <bcoryell@chesco.com> wrote in message news:<jnQHc.129$yo4.82322@monger.newsread.com>...
>
>>I've decided that Red Hat/ Fedora are not working for me, and would like
>>to try another major distro. Any recommendations? Has anyone tried
>>both Suse and Mandrake (professional versions) and can give the pros and
>>cons of each?
>
>
> I recently switched from Redhat 9.0 to Suse 9.1 Professional. The
> installation went pretty smoothly. Yast (Suse's system maintainence
> tool) is nice. I didn't like the look and feel of Suse's default KDE
> desktop, so I switched to Gnome, and after a while had it looking
> almost the same as in my old Redhat distro. But it took me a while to
> figure out how to switch to Gnome---the printed documentation doesn't
> tell you. (You select from a menu just before loggin in, it's
> actually quite easy, it makes it convenient to switch from one desktop
> to another, something that's a little more trouble in Redhat. BTW,
> light window managers like icewm are included, which I like, the
> Redhat distro didn't include these.)
>
> The documentation with Suse is not as complete or as well written as
> with the old Redhat, but it's not bad. One difference is that Redhat
> documents their default mail server (sendmail), but Suse doesn't
> document theirs (postfix). I run a mail server with a small
> clientele, and it took me quite a while to set up postfix and imap.
>
> I would have stayed with Redhat if they'd kept their prices as they
> were, but I'm reasonably happy with Suse. Never tried Mandrake.
>
> ---Nessuno
My SuSE 9.0 Professional was unusable on three different IBM Thinkpad
laptops. Plugging-in an external mouse (whilst the touchpoint/trackpad
was activated) would repeatedly freeze internet connectivity, and the
mouse. The only solution was to hibernate/resume, or reboot. SuSE's
official position was I was SOL. Do not support external mouse on
laptpos. There were other problems like sound not recovering after
hibernation. Strictly a desktop product it seems. I easily switched to
Mandrake (10.0) on the latest model of IBM laptop and everything,
installation to use, was far easier. More user-friendly.
A few quirks in taste here and there, but then, it's French.
DJ
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