When I get my dang box up and running (awaiting a stronger PSU), I'll have SuSe 9.1 to play with. Just another poll to see who's running what.
Mandriva, SuSE, SLAX and Ubuntu. Mandriva on my main rig, SLAX wherever i take it and the other two on my other rig.
I've got Kubuntu installed on my main computer and my other two are running Ubuntu and Xubuntu respectively. Although I can only run two computers at once so I normally choose to have Kubuntu and Ubuntu. Xubuntu is OK but not in the same league as the other two. I ditched SUSE about a week ago because I was loosing hair over all those circular dependencies. Oh and the fact SUSE is easy to break... I've also got SLAX on my MP3 player
LOL, as long as you know what you are doing! Don't expect any graphical administration tools! I've never tried Slackware, but i've tried lots of derivatives. Namely VectorLinux, Zenwalk and SLAX. Actually I might try VL again just so I can use Enlightenment! I tried to set up E17 on Ubuntu but it was too hard and their servers too slow.
I know, I was spoiled with the automated user administration and X configuration of other desktop distros. When I had to add my own user accounts and set the home directories I was shocked! No problem though, apart from the keyboard problems with a custom compiled 2.6 kernel. Once I had KDE running though it helped. Seemed a bit slow though.
Well that's good in the sense that Slackware forces the user to do things manually and use the terminal, so more is learned. The downside is that everything takes ages to setup When the time comes to take some Linux qualifications, I will no doubt choose Slackware to practice on. Firstly because there are no user aids whatsoever. Secondly because Slackware is pretty much unbreakable. [ot] Going to download Elive over the weekend and give it a spin. It's been awhile since I last used Enlightenment and I am simply graving for another hit. It'll be interesting to see how a distribution completey focused around E17 will work. [/ot]
I wonder if there was some oddball issue in SuSe, as that seems to be where my problems were lying. I'm getting the Mandrake Move iso right now, and will try that later on---probably tomorrow.
SuSE's repositories aren't very good. They are absolutely dwafted by Debians for example. I can't work out why the SuSE developers decided against adding any repositories in YaST whatsoever. The DVD has a lot of stuff on it, but it was never the stuff I was looking for! B, this might help you out. It's a guide to adding more repositories in YaST
I normally run Mandriva on my main box and SuSe on the "guest" computer. When I upgraded my motherboard and video card (7900 GT), and tried to install Mandriva, I keep getting some kind of error so for right now I'm running OpenSuSe 10.0 and will hopefully figure out the Mandriva problem quickly. I'm already getting tired of SuSe and I've been running it for almost a week.
Mandrake 10.1 on my wife's desktop, Mandriva 2006 on my desktop, Mandriva 2006 on my old junky laptop, CentOS 4.3 (RHEL derivitive) on both my web server and my file server, and IPCop on my firewall. I'm proud to say my network is 100% Microsoft free and functions flawlessly.
Hmm.. i gotta try Mandriva, but i use Knoppix and SymphonyOS, which is "a flubox version of windows vista" (quote from Linux Tracker). They're both pretty good, and i run XP Pro SP2 on my HDD, as Knoppix and SymphonyOS are LiveCDs, and dual triple booting sounds hard.
Running CentOS 4.3 now. No lock ups so far. A bit more simplistic, and not as easy to install as Suse, but still, I'll take these over lockups any day.
I like CentOS, although its more suitable for a server it still makes a decent desktop OS. For me, the name does it anyday.
