[KLUG Members] Distro distro ...

[Stu Gillis]

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> 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 ... 
>  
> 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. 
>  
> SuSE seems to be far ahead of Fedora/Redhat in a number of areas.  
> I first noticed a lot of hardware support I've never seen before, 
> like Win-modems, TV Tuner cards, and ALSA configured sound cards, 
> right from the installer. 
>  
> I also noticed more software features, like XFS, NTFS, encrypted 
> filesystems, answering machines, and more (like being able to 
> setup masquerading in the firewall setup). 
>  
> To download updates, you don't need to register for an account or 
> anything like Redhat's "up2date" requires.  Just point it to a ftp 
> server or mirror and update.  You can even schedule automatic 
> updates from the same screen. 
>  
> A lot of the "extra" software I always downloaded for RH/FD was 
> available right on the install CD's.  Like Adobe Acrobat reader, 
> OpenVPN, Firebird, APC UPS monitoring daemons, and more ... (did I 
> mention ALSA already? :) 
>  
Now you know why I switched back at SuSE 8.0!! 
Stu 
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