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" <
mark.jarvis@pvmail.maricopa.edu>
To: <
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
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" <mark.jarvis@pvmail.maricopa.edu>
> > To: "plug" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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