Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 14, 2003 07:49 AM
I've installed them both and this is the first time I've actually preferred SUSE.
Until now I've always had odd stability problems with SUSE, and with 8.2, whenever I connected a USB pendrive, KDE would add a new drive icon again and again until I had over 50 of em on the desktop! But others have always praised SUSE for stability, so I guessed it was simply unhappy with my hardware (Athlon/Durons + VIA chipsets - yep the combo from hell (according to some folks anyway)).
In comparison, Mandrake has always worked for me<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... until 9.2. The installation kept failing at different points, but eventually I got it up and running. But once I'd done the security updates, I couldn't install or remove kde apps because the dependencies were knackered. That's really odd - I've always used Mandrake because I didn't get these problems, so maybe I've been unlucky.
It's early days yet, so I can't say for sure that SUSE will remain better IMHO (and lets face it, what's better for me could be worse for you!), but I would say try them both - you can get them on ebay for under 5 GBP (which probably equates to 5 USD as usual!)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 14, 2003 07:49 AMUntil now I've always had odd stability problems with SUSE, and with 8.2, whenever I connected a USB pendrive, KDE would add a new drive icon again and again until I had over 50 of em on the desktop! But others have always praised SUSE for stability, so I guessed it was simply unhappy with my hardware (Athlon/Durons + VIA chipsets - yep the combo from hell (according to some folks anyway)).
In comparison, Mandrake has always worked for me<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... until 9.2. The installation kept failing at different points, but eventually I got it up and running. But once I'd done the security updates, I couldn't install or remove kde apps because the dependencies were knackered. That's really odd - I've always used Mandrake because I didn't get these problems, so maybe I've been unlucky.
It's early days yet, so I can't say for sure that SUSE will remain better IMHO (and lets face it, what's better for me could be worse for you!), but I would say try them both - you can get them on ebay for under 5 GBP (which probably equates to 5 USD as usual!)
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