Suse or Mandrake

[Jeremiah Summers]

Jason Hayes wrote:

>I'll preface this post with a note that I am not trying to start a war
>between rival distro factions in the city. I am simply trying to get
>intelligent comments on the merits of one distro that I have not used
>very often.
>
>I am expecting shipment of my new laptop (an acer aspire 1804 WSMI- XPP
>Notebook) and am wondering if anyone has had any experience using Suse
>on Acer systems.
>
>I tried to install Suse on my last laptop (an aspire 1705) but had a
>fair bit of trouble getting the networking and video to cooperate with
>it. Rather than fighting for a long time with it, I went back to
>Mandrake and have used Mdk 9.0, 9.2, 10.0, and 10.1 on the 1705. It has
>worked well with that system.
>
>Sadly, the 1705 suffered an untimely death recently - at the hands of a
>power surge - and all my attempts to fix it (including replacing the
>mother board) have failed to revive it.
>
>So with the new system on the way, I am once again considering Suse. I
>liked the fact that Suse now has the 9.3 iso's available for download
>and am keen on trying it. However, since this is going to be a primary
>workhorse for my job, I don't have a lot of time to fiddle with things.
>
>If anyone has any experience with Suse and Acer laptops and can send it
>my way, I would appreciate it. If not, I will likely head back to
>Mandrake or Mandriva and see if that continues to work.
>
>Thanks
>Jason Hayes
>
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My suggestion would be try PCLinuxOS. It's a Live Cd and you can try 
that before you install. It's based off of Mandrake so it's quite suer 
friendly. Here's The Link:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html?PHPSESSID=9f0018e28cb5dbf27b9f4a9c2452160b
Also there community support is quite good.
Jeremiah <><