I'm a semi-newbie coming from the mandrake camp. I loved them because their distro was good for people like me. The things I didn't like were that there were so amny nagging little bugs that I couldn't find out how to fix on my own. My biggest grip was that updating or adding packages wasn't straightforward. Any updating from their ftp would render the os unbootable after restarting. That didn't leave a positive impression on this operator. I bought, and had to return, mandrake 8.1 power pack ed because xfree86 wouldn't initialise after the os installed. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it to work. I later bought 8.1 gaming edition with the sims game. That worked better but updating was a pain in the backside.
I was very excited about kde3 and past attempts with suse were positive, so I gave it a go. To make a long story short...
I tried installing the packages I wanted with the dvd in the drive after booting with it. No go, the install script would hang. I tried using the cd in the dvd drive to do the same thing. Still hung up. Tried booting to my plextor cdrw with the cd's. Still hangin. At this point I was feeling very frustrated and sad because I really wanted it to install. I didn't want to return it for a refund for some stupid reasons like my previous mandrake times. I thought I'd give it one last shot. Instead of taking an hour and a half to browse through all the packages I wanted, I only installed the default one and just changed my time and location settings in yast2. I was estatic! It worked!!! Once I caught my breath, I started installing sections of packages. First I stared with games. Everything happened without a incident. The games worked. I continued down the list until I eventually had my tummy full of programs I planned to play with eventually. Everything worked flawlessly.
Then I tried another thing that used to fail miserably with mandrake, online updates. They worked as they should have in the first place! All updates took without any problems. Not once did I have to muck around in the command line! I feel very happy that everything worked out for me with this distro!
I will eventually teach myself how to get around sufficiently in the command line, but I wanna have fun with things first! I can't praise the people at SuSE enough with my happy reactions with thier product! I will, from now on, suggest this distro to other newbies and people that I preach to about the "other side of the fence" is REALLY greener!
Like the reviewer said, there's over 2200 programs you can use with the professional verion. I'm not bs'in you when I tell ya it took me an hour and a half to go through the wish list and pick and choose what I wanted. For $80, you get soooo many progs with it! If what they give you with the 7 cd's or the dvd don't satisfy your every needs, then you are one in a million. I can say that most people out there seriously might never need another program out there, because the kitchen sink is in the box!
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Posted by: Fishbutt on May 10, 2002 03:58 PMI was very excited about kde3 and past attempts with suse were positive, so I gave it a go. To make a long story short...
I tried installing the packages I wanted with the dvd in the drive after booting with it. No go, the install script would hang. I tried using the cd in the dvd drive to do the same thing. Still hung up. Tried booting to my plextor cdrw with the cd's. Still hangin. At this point I was feeling very frustrated and sad because I really wanted it to install. I didn't want to return it for a refund for some stupid reasons like my previous mandrake times. I thought I'd give it one last shot. Instead of taking an hour and a half to browse through all the packages I wanted, I only installed the default one and just changed my time and location settings in yast2. I was estatic! It worked!!! Once I caught my breath, I started installing sections of packages. First I stared with games. Everything happened without a incident. The games worked. I continued down the list until I eventually had my tummy full of programs I planned to play with eventually. Everything worked flawlessly.
Then I tried another thing that used to fail miserably with mandrake, online updates. They worked as they should have in the first place! All updates took without any problems. Not once did I have to muck around in the command line! I feel very happy that everything worked out for me with this distro!
I will eventually teach myself how to get around sufficiently in the command line, but I wanna have fun with things first! I can't praise the people at SuSE enough with my happy reactions with thier product! I will, from now on, suggest this distro to other newbies and people that I preach to about the "other side of the fence" is REALLY greener!
Like the reviewer said, there's over 2200 programs you can use with the professional verion. I'm not bs'in you when I tell ya it took me an hour and a half to go through the wish list and pick and choose what I wanted. For $80, you get soooo many progs with it! If what they give you with the 7 cd's or the dvd don't satisfy your every needs, then you are one in a million. I can say that most people out there seriously might never need another program out there, because the kitchen sink is in the box!
May the source be with you...
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