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18-Jun-2003, 10:08 PM #1
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What distributions do all of you favor?I have settled on SuSE8.2
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18-Jun-2003, 11:33 PM #2
Redhat 9 at the moment.
would love to get a suse copy.
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19-Jun-2003, 03:28 AM #3
Red Hat 9.0 as well. I've tried SuSe, the distro was very good, but for some reason my laptop had keyboard problems with it that were VERY frustrating so I switched to red hat 9 which I like less overall but also works well. it's too bad red hat feels the need to cripple a lot of programs and even the kernel to cover it's *** from copyrights making it necessary to do a lot of tweaking to get an up-to-date system.
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Originally posted by TristanSDM:
Red Hat 9.0 as well. I've tried SuSe, the distro was very good, but for some reason my laptop had keyboard problems with it that were VERY frustrating so I switched to red hat 9 which I like less overall but also works well. it's too bad red hat feels the need to cripple a lot of programs and even the kernel to cover it's *** from copyrights making it necessary to do a lot of tweaking to get an up-to-date system.
What programs do they do this too? Is there any articles on this?
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19-Jun-2003, 05:55 AM #5
They leave out NTFS support as well as support for MP3.They say it's due to the uncertain status of the copyrights.
SuSE is nice.I have not upgraded to 8.2.
Decided to give Mandrake 9.1 a spin.I really like it.
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my favourite is mandrake 9.0
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They leave out NTFS support as well as support for MP3.They say it's due to the uncertain status of the copyrights.
SuSE is nice.I have not upgraded to 8.2.
Decided to give Mandrake 9.1 a spin.I really like it.
lynch
They also use out-of-date versions of a lot of programs qouting they are more "stable". Sometimes more than two majour versions behind. Such is the case with evolution, mozilla and gaim to name a few that I ran into.
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