[aclug-L] Re: SuSE vs. Mandrake

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

KDE ran soooo slow on my RedHat 9 and so I removed all of the KDE and
now it is running much better.  It was taking almost 5 minutes (no
kidding!) to open an email.  I couldn't take it any more and did a
complete reinstall, but didn't format the home partition.  

If you want a copy of Suse, let me know.  ~Anne

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:21, gLaNDix wrote:
> > (I assume KDE is the default desktop) and  usablity factors?  Is there
> > anything broken in the default install (like  Mandrake and RedHat seem
> > to always be) <- go ahead guys, flame away...
> 
> no flames from this end, except towards redhat for jacking with kde so
> badly!  fortunately in RH9 it's much better than in the past, and
> 9.1/10/whatever betas seem to be looking up.  unfortunately our distro
> (CPUBuilder OS) is based on RedHat, so I've had to do a lot of un-hacking
> to get things to work right...
> 
> > Anything else you think
> > I should know before I trash my beloved Mandrake 9.1  install?
> 
> the biggest disadvantage, imho, of SuSE is the fact that it's so closed
> compared to (most) other distros.  last i tried, the only way to do a
> free install was to install via FTP/HTTP, which kinda sucked, especially
> since Cox was really bad about fixing the cable line to my old house
> (fortunately i moved and now it works fine... go fig!)...  Mandrake has
> (semi) recently filed for Chapter 11 (or something similar) in France,
> but i haven't kept up to date on what their future holds...
> 
> but, on a brighter note: why trash your MDK9.1 install?  if you've got
> enuf drive space, you can easily dual-boot the two and compare them "side
> by side"...
> 
> tonite, i'm starting on my venture into Gentoo, since i've heard so many
> good things about it and i'm an avid freebsd fan (i'd be using FBSD if it
> wasn't for my video and sound cards not being fully supported)...
> 
> good luck!
> gLaNDix
> 
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