Re: SuSE 9.1 and GNOME 2.6

[Lloyd Budd <lloyd foolswisdom com>]

On 30-Apr-04, at 13:40, Carsten Weinberg wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:16:44 -0400 (EDT)
> "Larry W. Virden" <lvirden cas org> wrote:
>
> > It's my understanding that this is nothing new - that SuSE has long
> > preferred KDE over GNOME.
>
> well, it's their mistake. I'm looking for a new, clearly Gnome2 
> oriented
> distribution. Any suggestions?

My assertion is that SUSE is still your best commercial distro for
a gnew machine .  Although not leading edge , Ximian
delivers Gnome well.

Here is my view as posted to TLUG (Toronto):

IMHO SUSE is now the leader in "user friendly" -- though Debian or
Gentoo are the only way to go if you have the "resources" for the
initial installation and configuration.  I am not suggesting switching,
 but if I am to recommend a distribution to a new user or computer
 (Debian/Gentoo clause above) then it is SUSE.

When I did select Mandrake [1], a main consideration was to use
a Gnome supporter.  Now that Ximian and SUSE have the same
parent company, SUSE has the best of both world (Gnome & KDE).
I did not overcome tryiing to find "sources" for YAST(2) for software
install sources and update, but I thankfully I did not have to.
Ximian's red-carpet , as was my experience under RedHat ,
is a fantastic, complete pkg management tool
(and the downloads have plenty of bandwidth).

Cheers,
Lloyd

[1] The reasons why I stopped using Mandrake:
* finding online repositories (urpmi) for Mandrake
-- http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php really is not that nice
* non-"members" do not have access to "core" computing
technologies such as Macro. Flash plugin for browser
* too cutting edge -- you are likely to cut getting cut, or at least the
members will ;-)  This is not much of an issue, because there is no
good reason to always run at the latest release.  But what makes
this issue annoying is Mandrake members whining about it ;-)
* Mandrake loss / losing / frustrating some of the best independent
 pkg makers .  For example Texstar.