George Toft wrote: > > At the risk of Holy Distro Jihad Round X, and with the following > caveat, I make my opinion known. > > Caveat: My latest test data was SuSE 6.4, Mandrake 7.0, Red Hat 6.2 > all on the same hardware. > > SuSE Makes the best workstation because so much stuff is included > and configured for you by default. For example, using the above > distros, Netscape is already set up for sound and movies to work > for you. The ATA66 drivers are already compiled into the Kernel. > Enlightenment looks 10X better under SuSE than Mandrake. > > Sure, you can add this stuff, and tweak it, but you have to know > what you are doing first. SuSE does it for you so you can get > to work, hence the name _work_station. > > My opinion of SuSE is radically different as a server, but is > beyond the scope of this message. > > My two cents. Not meant to start the distro war. Your mileage may > vary. > > George > ------------ Problem is that all of those have had at least 1 and maybe 2 major upgrades since. Craig