That would be outstanding Ben, articles comparing recent opensuse vs F12?, u9.10, u9.10 vs F12, etc.

I have to agree with the comments regarding nothing is static. I’ve bounced between Fedora and Ubuntu over the years. In fact, I went to Ubuntu on the advice of a Linux Kernel developer where I then worked who, upon hearing my horror stories of Fedora care and feeding recommended Ubuntu as it “just worked”. I think Ubuntu still has some work to do with respect to recognizing and utilizing a multi drive raid capable bios. When I installed F-something it saw the two drives and the firmware raid and installed LVM under raid 0 no muss no fuss. When I felt Fedora required too many acts of love, I tried Ubuntu and it didn’t know anything about LVM or firmaware raid and set up my two drives as sda and sdb, rather than a single logical volume tha just happened to span two physical volumes. Ubuntu will now do that but only when installing via the alternate installation media. What happened to “it just works”?

Evolution, in an Exchange environment largely is brain dead. It would be nice to see someone (Novell or Mozilla) address that. Athough an iPhone seems to handle Exchange well, I am perplexed why a Linux environment can’t. (yes, I know, slightly off topic).

What I’d like to see is a Linux distro where, whatever is there, works and works flawlessly. Not an environment where only a mother, or Linux software developer, could love it. I think that was my main complaint with Fedora, it was, by design, too bleeding edge.

On one last note. I upgraded several U8.10 systems to U9.04 no problems. I had nightmares and one minor coronary upgrading 9.04 to 9.10. I upgraded flawlessly on an X86 laptop and X86-64 quad core with 8GB. However, when it failed on the 3rd box, it failed big time. Again, what happened to “it just works”? I do really like U9.10 but it did, unfortunately, require a huge labor of love to get that third system running again.

I would like to note repeat that experience, with anything.

It would also be really nice if Firefox got 100% flash, or whatever, compatible with IE. I am not 100% convinced though it is FF, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. It would seem likely it is FF though.

opensuse vs fedora
opensuse vs ubuntu
fedora vs ubuntu

So please stay tuned.. thank you for the visit.

And on that note.. both openSUSE 11.2 and Ubuntu 9.10 have gotten better since my previous writings..

I’m sure that earlier builds of Ubuntu left much to be desired. Things change. I only started using Ubuntu at 9.04 and now use 9.10. Unlike Microsoft, Ubuntu is very responsive and proactive in keeping Ubuntu evolving and improving. Many of the features mentioned here that are in contrast to one another are not a real issue anymore. For example, as far as I can tell, Ubuntu has since been able to handle both KDE and Gnome as well.

All I can say is that if Ubuntu sucks that bad, why is Microsoft trying hard to copy it? Win7 looks almost exactly like Ubuntu. In fact: Microsoft is going to release a blatant copy of Ubuntu for its’ Netbook edition of Win7 in the near future if they haven’t already.

Since both openSUSE and Ubuntu have the LiveCD function, why not try both out. Make sure you have current versions of each. After trying out both again, stick with the one that works best for you and your needs.

I was able to fix it but that’s not the reason we are using Linux Distributions, right? I want to spend my time with using a nice default system where all of my hardware and software works but not spend hours and maybe even days configuring my desktop system. (Can be fun too of course…)

Anyway I got a new computer some time later and I installed Ubuntu 8.04. That was no good release. So I upgraded shortly later to 8.10. That worked much better for me. Well, yesterday I upgraded to 9.04 and guess what, sound didn’t work, lot’s of graphic errors appeared, internet was very slow (because there are supporting IPv6 now…), firefox crashed frequently, other X applications freezed or crashed randomly. After being able to fix most issues today I wasn’t able to recover the sound. (I booted and there was no sound…) That made me switch to OpenSuSE 11.1.

I installed it via the Live CD. Thanks to LVM that was no big deal. But I can’t really recommend it to Linux-Newbies. Took me some time to make the DSL work and the pre-installation YaST-interface had some bugs. And the boot manager – and partition configuration in general – is kind of confusion although it most options you can think of.

But what I like most of the new system… The desktop is *much* faster and more reactive! Really nice.

Wow, but Yast is what stopped me. After installing from CD, SuSe proved it’s security by asking me for a login and password before I’d set up any account!

Once I sorted that out, I fired up Yast and spent the next hour trying to click exit exit no no – it’s impossible to get out!!! Yast just takes over your system.

I worked at it for a week, then went back to Ubuntu. Sorry to disappoint.

“The problem with most people is that they have a perception of Microsoft as being an unforgiving dictator. They don’t realize that it is one of the most successful companies that has never seen losses in all the years that it has existed, except probably until recently” – incredible statement. Do you have any idea how Microsoft works? Why do you think Dell even print ‘Recommends Windows XP’ on the website for their Linux Netbook sales? Do you think it’s through choice?

Microsoft are the Mafia. Do we put up with Mafia because we choose their service over the competition?

KDE DOES GO SLOW, and the boot time is slow. Ubuntu 9.04, if you install with ext4, boots almost silently to desktop in about 25 seconds – SuSe 11.1 freshly installed took almost double that – probably because of the graphics and splash screens. I’d rather have a faster boot.

YAST2 totally dominates your system. When I tried to get my nVidia driver, my internet cut during a storm – you’re not allowed to log out (Yast2 says NO!) so you either power off – or click like crazy. ABORT, ‘yast2 curl can’t access the domain, quit?’ You have to do this for every single item on your list… but the option to abort or skip doesn’t come up for at least half a minute, your system is frozen.

With synaptic, and apt-get – Ubuntu is so easy for getting software and customising. The next thing I added with YAST was a one-click solution – took me an hour before I could make it work – and when Gwibber was installed, SuSe told me happily that I couldn’t run it on a KDE desktop.

With Ubuntu, if I install Gnome OR KDE applications, it gets all of the libraries (For Amarok, I think the bigger part of the downloads are the KDE libraries that don’t come with a Gnome desktop – but with SuSe it doesn’t bother, just says it won’t work!!)

After installing nVidia, it said ‘edit your Xorg file and reboot’
It did NOT tell me the location of the file, or what to edit!!!

Ubuntu sometimes tells you to do something in terminal, and it’s so easy ‘edit your etc/bash.rc file’ and it also tells you exactly what to edit.

It takes an hour to download and install 30 themes from gnome-desktop sites, and after doing that, your desktop looks better than ANY freshly installed distro.

Compiz runs more smoothly on Ubuntu than any distro I tried also.

No competition, apt-get has super powers.

cowsay moo

(If you have Ubuntu, stick that in your terminal if you don’t have cowsay, it will tell you what to do.. just try it!)
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Not sure it will look right after posting, the font will be changed… but you can cut and paste it into terminal to get the right effect. Sooo cool!

little knowledge is dangerous man…………. have u ever tried vlc, MPlayer on linux. Let me tell u, u r acting like a asshole……

You think windows is crap yet you can’t even play DVD’s on linux? You’re a lame ass poser.