Subj : Re: Mandrake vs Suse To : comp.os.linux,comp.os.mandrake,comp.os.suse From : David Jones Date : Mon Jul 12 2004 04:04 pm nessuno wrote: > Bruce Coryell wrote in message news:... > >>I've decided that Red Hat/ Fedora are not working for me, and would like >>to try another major distro. Any recommendations? Has anyone tried >>both Suse and Mandrake (professional versions) and can give the pros and >>cons of each? > > > I recently switched from Redhat 9.0 to Suse 9.1 Professional. The > installation went pretty smoothly. Yast (Suse's system maintainence > tool) is nice. I didn't like the look and feel of Suse's default KDE > desktop, so I switched to Gnome, and after a while had it looking > almost the same as in my old Redhat distro. But it took me a while to > figure out how to switch to Gnome---the printed documentation doesn't > tell you. (You select from a menu just before loggin in, it's > actually quite easy, it makes it convenient to switch from one desktop > to another, something that's a little more trouble in Redhat. BTW, > light window managers like icewm are included, which I like, the > Redhat distro didn't include these.) > > The documentation with Suse is not as complete or as well written as > with the old Redhat, but it's not bad. One difference is that Redhat > documents their default mail server (sendmail), but Suse doesn't > document theirs (postfix). I run a mail server with a small > clientele, and it took me quite a while to set up postfix and imap. > > I would have stayed with Redhat if they'd kept their prices as they > were, but I'm reasonably happy with Suse. Never tried Mandrake. > > ---Nessuno My SuSE 9.0 Professional was unusable on three different IBM Thinkpad laptops. Plugging-in an external mouse (whilst the touchpoint/trackpad was activated) would repeatedly freeze internet connectivity, and the mouse. The only solution was to hibernate/resume, or reboot. SuSE's official position was I was SOL. Do not support external mouse on laptpos. There were other problems like sound not recovering after hibernation. Strictly a desktop product it seems. I easily switched to Mandrake (10.0) on the latest model of IBM laptop and everything, installation to use, was far easier. More user-friendly. A few quirks in taste here and there, but then, it's French. DJ .