Posted by: Administrator
on January 07, 2004 06:09 PM
I wish I knew these things before I got involved with Linux. My experience is with SUSE 8.1, Red Hat 9, and Knoppix.
SUSE is the most loaded distro, but it's instructions in English are like a "machine translation" of German-- they are incomprehensible (and I consider myself fairly literate and smart).
Especially when setting up a DSL account: the SUSE instructions are geared for dial-ups in Europe! Many apps buzzed out--or broke.
Red Hat was an easier install, and I began to love Gnome over KDE-- BUT, one needs a magnifying glass to read the installation manual, and Red Hat 9 lacks MP3 (it must be downloaded as a plug-in). I've never gotten Real Player to work, and I want MPlayer-- but I am a newbie and it is incomprrehensible to me even though I've read everything on the net and in the library that I can.
I picked up a Knoppix distro at the LinuxWorld Convention in S.F. It works great and flawlessly, but I am afraid to use it as a dual boot with Red Hat. It seems Linux Distros and layman manuals are always emphasizing how to get Linux to work with Windows. I don't want Microsoft in my home! I wish the Distros would just concentrate on making Linux second to none (which it REALLY is).
I don't want to f--k up my expensive computer with an OS that is a magnet for viruses and requires me to buy alot of crappy advertisement-laden software just to get a minimal home pre-perimeter defined IT experience.
I want something that works-- and I don't want to be a hostage consumer. No more fast food please.
I am still learning how to get the most from Linux-- the challenges and rewards are endless-- I am very curious about other distros like Turbolinux and Slackware. The Asians seem to be able to make almost everything more user-friendly and I expect the same in a distro like Turbolinux. Anyone tried it? All the smart geeks love Slackware-- but what makes it different?
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Re:my 2 cents on SUSE 9.0
Posted by: Administrator on January 07, 2004 06:09 PMSUSE is the most loaded distro, but it's instructions in English are like a "machine translation" of German-- they are incomprehensible (and I consider myself fairly literate and smart).
Especially when setting up a DSL account: the SUSE instructions are geared for dial-ups in Europe! Many apps buzzed out--or broke.
Red Hat was an easier install, and I began to love Gnome over KDE-- BUT, one needs a magnifying glass to read the installation manual, and Red Hat 9 lacks MP3 (it must be downloaded as a plug-in). I've never gotten Real Player to work, and I want MPlayer-- but I am a newbie and it is incomprrehensible to me even though I've read everything on the net and in the library that I can.
I picked up a Knoppix distro at the LinuxWorld Convention in S.F. It works great and flawlessly, but I am afraid to use it as a dual boot with Red Hat. It seems Linux Distros and layman manuals are always emphasizing how to get Linux to work with Windows. I don't want Microsoft in my home! I wish the Distros would just concentrate on making Linux second to none (which it REALLY is).
I don't want to f--k up my expensive computer with an OS that is a magnet for viruses and requires me to buy alot of crappy advertisement-laden software just to get a minimal home pre-perimeter defined IT experience.
I want something that works-- and I don't want to be a hostage consumer. No more fast food please.
I am still learning how to get the most from Linux-- the challenges and rewards are endless-- I am very curious about other distros like Turbolinux and Slackware. The Asians seem to be able to make almost everything more user-friendly and I expect the same in a distro like Turbolinux. Anyone tried it? All the smart geeks love Slackware-- but what makes it different?
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