Personally I do prefer SuSE. I am using SuSE 8.2 on my other machine, and I haven't had a problem. This is strange to me as I have always had to do some tweaking, but it has been wonderful. My uptime is like 113 days or so... I am on an XP box now,which is rebooted weekly, but I will private you my signature from my SuSE box. Now that YaST is open source, it should be much better, although I had no complaints before. I have used all of the distro's with the exception of Debian (Knoppix is not installed so it does not count), and SuSE really grabbed me. I hated RH as it pushes Gnome, and the same for Mandrake. SuSE on the other hand pushes KDE, and as a former windows user this is the way to go..It is comfortable, user friendly, and what can I say I use vi.... Here goes the age old battle!!!! ;) Michael Registered linux user # 348490 http://counter.li.org/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Jarvis" To: Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 12:01 AM Subject: Re: Mandrake Move Problem > > Michael, thanks for your comments! > > > 1st: Are you running an AMD Athalon at 1.2ghz, or an Intel Celeron at > > 1.2ghz? > Oops! That's an AMD Duron at 1.2ghz. > > I may end up going with Knoppix, but a) I wanted to compare it with MM, > and b) MM's use of the USB jump drive intrigued me. Actually, i'm not > too interested in using a CD based version much personally (it's so-o-o > slow), but wanted to get familiar with those two (and maybe some others) > before handing them out to my command line UNIX classes as an assignment. > > Besides, that lockup made me MAD! > > -mj- > > Michael wrote: > > > 1st: Are you running an AMD Athalon at 1.2ghz, or an Intel Celeron at > > 1.2ghz? > > 2nd: I have had similar problems with Mandrake, and it had to do with the > > Hardware.. I ended up using Knoppix exclusively for my travel companion.... > > 3rd: I tried all the "Live CD" including the FreeBSD cd, and I found that > > Knoppix was the absolute best... I had to config the resolution in Mepis, > > SuSE booted like it was installing, Mandrake asked to many questions, and > > was slow, and Free BSD was just strange to me. My suggestion, if one works > > and the other doesn't , go with the one that works as you are not installing > > it anyway, so you are limited in what you may change!!!!! > > > > Registered linux user # 348490 > > http://counter.li.org/ > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mark Jarvis" > > To: "plug" > > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:57 PM > > Subject: Mandrake Move Problem > > > > > > > >>Although it works fine at school, when I try to boot into Mandrake Move > >>(Mandrake's new CD-based, portable system) on my home machine, it locks > > > > up. > > > >>I'm running an AMD 1.2G Celeron with 512 MB memory, 3 IDE disks, an IDE > >>CD-ROM, an old 2GB SCSI disk, an 8Mb ATI 3D rage LT Pro video card, and > >>a new Envision 19" monitor that I run at 1600x1200, 75 Hz vert. refresh. > >>I multi-boot between NT4, two XP installations, Mandrake 9.2, and > >>Mandrake 10.0. > >> > >>Mandrake Move appears to load just fine up through the KDE splash screen > >>where it says that it's installing peripherals . . .desktop . . .panel . > >>. . It stays in "panel" a lo-o-n-g time, then the KDE thing goes away & > >>I'm left with a pretty blue screen with a line about 1/2" up from the > >>bottom, ending in a Mandrake logo near the RH side. At this point, I > >>can move the mouse cursor around the screen, but can get NOTHING else to > >>happen. Mouse clicks, various CTRL key combinations, all are ignored. > >>The CD drive even ignores the eject button. > >> > >>Does anyone have any suggestions? Any help will be much appreciated. > >> > >>FWIW, booting into Knoppix works fine. > >> > >>-mj- > >>Mark Jarvis > >>mark.jarvis@pvmail.maricopa.edu > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------- > >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > >>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss