Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 04, 2005 03:42 AM
Well, Mepis did not work on my laptop, and didn't run the wireless card. It was the distro in the Book about point and click linux. Well, it didn't work, whereas SuSE and Knoppix did, and FC1 and FC2 didn't.
Noobs just don't install software. WYSIWYG. Whatever is on their distro, whatever got installed, that is what you get. Maybe Linspire works for easy install/upgrade but I didn't try it as it has cost and I didn't know if it would work, and I don't know if they want more subscription money every year. So they are out of my trying criteria.
So we want a lot for no expense, and hate paying and getting something no better or a little worse than what is free for the download. Hey, if what you got for $100 was $100 better than what you can get for free, OK, great, sign me up. But if what you get for $100 is a little worse than what you get for free, what's going on there? Marketing I guess. Yes, the SuSE support is quite limited. You better have the right problem or they don't support THAT (your particular problem). I guess I have never called for support from Microsoft, but then, MS always allows my laptop to sleep and wake up just fine. SuSE does if you know to set UID, and Knoppix works from the start. Fedora, well that just doesn't yet. FC3 pretty wild. FC1 not bad for stability.
Is it just my experience, or is 2.6 still not ready for prime time? Grab the copies of distros that still have a 2.4 kernel if you need stability.
SuSE was pretty good at 9.0. Then apparently 9.1 has the early 2.6.3 kernel, and that must not work very well because you can get DVDs of that professional distro as part of the purchase of some Linux magazines, and as the included DVD for a couple books. For SuSE to release thatprofessional distro for almost free, it must not have been that good. 9.2 from the DVD has a lot of little quirks and bugs, and the 2.6 kernel only, and it dies sometimes.
Maybe we need to wait for 2.6.20 before this will be OK, as they are trying to integrate USB2.0 and many other cool things that just are not good for stability, but are good for consumers. Will we have Consumer Linux with the stability of ME and professional Linux with the stability of win2K? Microsoft would applaud that development, now wouldn't they?
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Re:You still didn't answer the question
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 04, 2005 03:42 AMNoobs just don't install software. WYSIWYG. Whatever is on their distro, whatever got installed, that is what you get. Maybe Linspire works for easy install/upgrade but I didn't try it as it has cost and I didn't know if it would work, and I don't know if they want more subscription money every year. So they are out of my trying criteria.
So we want a lot for no expense, and hate paying and getting something no better or a little worse than what is free for the download. Hey, if what you got for $100 was $100 better than what you can get for free, OK, great, sign me up. But if what you get for $100 is a little worse than what you get for free, what's going on there? Marketing I guess. Yes, the SuSE support is quite limited. You better have the right problem or they don't support THAT (your particular problem). I guess I have never called for support from Microsoft, but then, MS always allows my laptop to sleep and wake up just fine. SuSE does if you know to set UID, and Knoppix works from the start. Fedora, well that just doesn't yet. FC3 pretty wild. FC1 not bad for stability.
Is it just my experience, or is 2.6 still not ready for prime time? Grab the copies of distros that still have a 2.4 kernel if you need stability.
SuSE was pretty good at 9.0. Then apparently 9.1 has the early 2.6.3 kernel, and that must not work very well because you can get DVDs of that professional distro as part of the purchase of some Linux magazines, and as the included DVD for a couple books. For SuSE to release thatprofessional distro for almost free, it must not have been that good. 9.2 from the DVD has a lot of little quirks and bugs, and the 2.6 kernel only, and it dies sometimes.
Maybe we need to wait for 2.6.20 before this will be OK, as they are trying to integrate USB2.0 and many other cool things that just are not good for stability, but are good for consumers. Will we have Consumer Linux with the stability of ME and professional Linux with the stability of win2K? Microsoft would applaud that development, now wouldn't they?
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