[Discuss] SUSE looks good!

[Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn]

Well John, this should probably be in the Newbie List, however, as my
problem is all your fault<g>, I'm posting it here. You suggested that we try
SUSE 10.3 so I promptly decided to d/l the Live CD to give it a try. I was
pleasantly surprised at how quickly I was able to d/l the ISO as I've had
some really bad experiences with 8 to 10 hours of d/ling...... Burned the
disc and popped it in. Up it came and in an interesting shade of green
(guys, don't even think of trying it the day after the night before<gggg>).
I d/l'd the Gnome version btw. I think I might like it if only I could
navigate properly in it.......it doesn't show my cursor!!! I can get my
trackball to work provided I can figure out where it is (i.e., if an icon or
button is suddenly highlighted). Mostly I had to use my keyboard to navigate
which was less than workable in an unfamiliar environment.......so, does
anyone know how I could get SUSE to give me back my cursor?<g> It's a
Logitech Marble FX Trackball and I've never had a problem with several other
Live CDs of different distros e.g. Ubuntu, Kubuntu, PCLinuxOS,
GenTOO.........

8-)
Joan


> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:54:43 -0700
> From: John Blomfield <jabfield at shaw.ca>
> Subject: [Discuss] SUSE looks good!
> To: discuss at vlug.org
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> I have been installing a few distributions on an a spare computer that I
> can use for a demo at the new BB&C Linux SIG and I cannot resist drawing
> your attention to the SuSE 10.3 distro.  I don't normally try a lot of
> different distros since I found Fedora suited most of my needs and once
> you find out where everything is in a distro its too much like hard work
> to keep changing.  But for the Linux SIG I thought I had better make the
> effort and so far I have installed Debian, Ubuntu / Kubuntu, Fedora and
> now SuSe.  I have one more empty partition to fill on my box and my
> thought is to try Mandiva (but if I asked I am sure you all have your
> favorite alternatives).  I have tried to stick to the major distros that
> are well supported and maintained.  I prefer to try full installations
> rather than just Live CD's since you can better see how they really do
> stuff.
>
> <snip>
>
> So back to SuSe! The last time I used SuSe was five years ago and
> release 8.2 (they don't seem to change their major release numbers
> often, i.e 10.3 to 8.2 in five years!)  It is now unrecognizable from
> those days and stuffed full of really useful GUI's for just about
> everything.  Lots of systems info all nicely displayed with the standard
> KDE desktop, no extra searching for the right packages to install.
> Powerful configuration GUI's for hardware, servers and clients.  I have
> always thought Fedora was good but SuSe I think is better.  The only
> qualification I have so far is that some of the development packages are
> not the latest stable releases, e.g. qt4.3.1 instead of qt4.3.3 but this
> may be cautious quality control checking.  My bias is that I prefer KDE
> to Gnome and SuSe supports KDE well (I haven't tried the SuSe Gnome
> version yet).
>
> Try it!
>
> John Blomfield
>
>
>
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Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn, U.E.
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