Which Distro

[koder]

mike,

Live CDs run most of the software from the CD. If you click on a
seemingly inconsequential button and it has to load a utility of some
size into memory, the system will pause while it is reading and loading
the program you have just called. That would be inherent in live CDs.

There are differences in structure between SuSe, a recompilation of Red
Hat Enterprise, and Ubuntu/Kubuntu a derivitive of Debian. They don't
put their files in the same location, sometimes there are version
differences and other subtle things. Replacing a few files is out,
unless you are really good.

You could install SuSe and Ubuntu/Kubuntu in different partitions and
use a common home directory. That would let you reboot from one to
another to try each out if you are trying to learn them, if that is your
only choice. Two machines would do that with less grief, I think.

The difference between KDE and Gnome has just been discussed in a
separate thread.

The decision may be based partially on how valuable your data is, how
much patience and how much technical skill you have. In the past I have
just blown things out and reloaded. Now I have a means to regularly back
up my data and the project is only a slight, although time consuming
PITA.

Harold

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From: Mike Bushroe <mbushroe at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Which Distro
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:28:00 -0700

Currently 2 Gig of physical memory, and I think a 10 Gig Swap
partition that it finds and uses. I was guessing that something was
hanging up in the CD/DVD-ROM drive. I ran a memory test and found
nothing wrong there. And like I said, both Knoppix 5.4 and Unbuntu
8.10 woudl freeze right after I click on some seemingly unimportant
button.

   I guess that since I can not currently boot SuSe at all, installing
to Unbuntu (or Kunbuntu, for which I just downloaded the Live/Install
iso) and having the computer only run Unbuntu may not be much of a
lose anyway.

Mike


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> One might suspect the live CD freezing for a few reasons.  The most
> common would be a memory limitation if you are trying out a bunch of
> things as EVERYTHING is living in your physical RAM.  It is possible
> the LiveCD is using the swap partition from your installed SUSE which
> would relieve the situation but not eliminate it depending on your
> amount of physical RAM.
>
> If you do want to use KDE, just using kubuntu instead of ubuntu is the easiest.
>
> It CAN coexist with SUSE but I don't think the normal install
> automates that.  There is a proposal in to make it so, but as of now I
> think you need to fix grub manually.  You might also want to do manual
> partitioning.  You need someone more expert in these matters than I
> am.
>
> Larry
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