[KLUG Members] opensuse 10.3 and Ubuntu 7.04 Impressions

[Peter Bart]

On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 09:59 -0400, Mark Bystry wrote:
> I have to say that I'm pretty impressed with opensuse 10.3 as well. Of course I have been using suse
> ever since release 9.0 so maybe I have a little bias. 

Me too, I defected to Ubuntu at 6.06 for two of three with mine
remaining Suse then opensuse.

> The only problem that I had in 10.3 was a
> stinky MPLayer install which has nothing to do really with the distro. I got that fixed by
> downloading an svn version of MPlayer (which I think just turn into MPlayer rc2) and compiling from
> source.

No problems here.

> 
> The other issue was Compiz-Fusion (CF). It took a few days to finally figure out what exactly I
> needed for a stable experience. Thank goodness for the suse forums.
> 
> I have always been impressed with ubuntu too. Out of the 7 computers in my house a version of ubuntu
> runs on all of them except for my main rig/server which has opensuse installed.
> 
> Cannot go wrong with either release in my view.

>From my limited point I think you're right. Ubuntu has made a huge
advance from 6.10 to 7.04 YMMV. 
> 
> Mark Bystry
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