Subj : Re: Rocky Linux
To   : Gamgee
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Sep 26 2025 19:26:59

  Re: Re: Rocky Linux
  By: Gamgee to Accession on Thu Sep 25 2025 09:15 pm

 Ga> Hehe, yeah me neither.  Always thought Suse was weird even back before it
 Ga> "split".  Certainly don't have any interest in it now.

Although I had tried Slackware in the mid-90s, SuSE was one of the first Linux distros I seriously got into, around 1999 or so. At the time, SuSE had its own configurator for X that I found to be more successful at detecting my video hardware and its valid settings, so I was able to get XFree86 running fairly easily with SuSE.  Also, it had a fairly large repository of included software (and from what I remember, it was one of the earlier distibutions available for DVD-R, whereas most other distros at the time were on a CD or two).

Eventually though, its X configurator didn't work so well anymore, and I moved on to other Linux distros.  I found similar problems with other Linux distros around that time, where one version would work fairly well but the next version wouldn't.  It seems like most Linux distros these days don't really have that issue.

Nightfox

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