[KLUG Advocacy] Re: [KLUG Members] Distro distro ...
Bruce Smith
advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:26:32 -0500
> > Not being completely happy with Fedora because of a few annoying (but
> > minor) bugs, I started looking at other distributions. I looked at and
> > rejected a few distros for a number of reasons (I'll discuss them on
> > advocacy if anyone is interested - not here), then I tried SuSE 9.0 ...
> >
> Yeah I would be interested in hearing what you have came up with the
> other distros.
Other distros I evaluated. (more or less :)
First let me say that I do NOT like switching distributions.
It takes a lot of time, and I don't want to do it very often.
First I discounted Mandrake without even looking at it. Reason:
Every few months they seem to be crying that they are running out of
money, and if they don't get some donations they will close their doors.
I was afraid that if I switched to Mandrake, they would really close
down the next day and I'd have to switch distros again.
Next I looked at Gentoo. It's a neat concept and seemed to be a nice
distro, but the install process was too much work for the number of
machines that I need to convert.
Debian: I would have looked at it harder, I could have gotten the damn
thing to install. (that was before I heard about the new/beta
installer)
What am I missing? Probably something....
> I would also like to hear more on what you did not like about Fedora.
A bunch of minor things that bug me. Overall it's "acceptable", and
I'd be sticking with it if I hadn't found SuSE to be so much better.
Bugs like the calendar in Evolution keeps giving me trouble. I click
on "calendar" and I get "tasks" (no calendar shows up).
And the other day I plugged in my Firewire disk drive that I use to
backup my laptop, and Firewire is no longer working (worked in RH9).
And my laptop HANGS during shutdown when stopping iptables, unless I
manually stop iptables before shutting down. This started around the
time I recreated my firewall settings with the Fedora GUI.
All three of my "desktops" (home, work and laptop) need ALSA for sound.
It's a major pain to recompile/reinstall ALSA every time a new kernel
update is released on Fedora. ALSA is supported "out of the box" on
SuSE 9.0. Plus a lot of other "extra" software comes standard on SuSE,
making my life easier (Adobe Acrobat reader, OpenVPN, APC UPS monitor).
- BS