[KLUG Members] Distro distro ...

[Bruce Smith]

> > Now I'd like someone to talk me out of switching all of my Linux boxes
> > to SuSE.  Please help, it would save me a lot of time NOT to convert.
> 
> You won't hear much from me.  I'm thinking about doing the same thing.  

You guys are no help.  :-)

> ALSA out-of-the box
> XFS/ACL out-of-the-box
> Cyrus IMAPd out-of-the-box
> 
>  - Three really pain in the butt packages I *NEED*

You've got the "pain" part right!  For example, today Redhat/Fedora
released new kernels.  I'm thinking that I need to find ALSA drivers for
them, but they won't be RPM's available for download anywhere for a few
days.  So I'll end up compiling the kernel modules myself, again ...
It might be easier to switch to SuSE instead!

> Now (or soon to be) the same company as Ximian!  Hopefully they'll stop wasting
> so much time on KDE.

One minor downside of SuSE 9 is Gnome is version 2.2.  Fedora has 2.4.
But I figure that if that becomes a issue, I'll install Ximian gnome.
(so far it's not an issue for me)

> RedHat seems to have fallen asleep recently, IMHO.  Or their target audience has
> shifted away from "me".  Some of their packages are really stale,  for server
> side stuff I expected more forward-motion in RH9 than I saw - but the desktop
> (CUPS, etc...) improvements were great.

I have a problem with their new business model too.

I don't mind paying for a quality distribution (I bought SuSE 9.0 pro),
but I _do_ mind paying for updates.  That's where RH blew it for me.
(Fedora has other issues)

 - BS