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Old 10-16-2004, 03:04 PM   #1
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Talking Red Hat! Vs. Suse Pro 91!


is Fedora core 2 better then suse pro 9.1 how do they compare

im sick of suse to many bugs, i may just buy Fedora or put windows back in?


 
Old 10-16-2004, 07:56 PM   #2
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Umm... to many bugs, in suse? And what bugs would those be? As I'm browsing the internet through a wireless card on a double proxy with a dialup server and playing wine emulated windows games with vmware running and some music playing... I refuse to believe in bugs.

If its crashing for you, you've done something wrong.
 
Old 10-16-2004, 08:27 PM   #3
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Umm... to many bugs, in suse? And what bugs would those be? As I'm browsing the internet through a wireless card on a double proxy with a dialup server and playing wine emulated windows games with vmware running and some music playing... I refuse to believe in bugs.

If its crashing for you, you've done something wrong.
good god your leet
 
Old 10-17-2004, 12:48 AM   #4
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OMEGA-DOOM,

If you have a problem with SuSE that you can't figure out... post it.

And please... check your grammer before posting, it would help us understand your post better.
 
Old 10-17-2004, 01:12 AM   #5
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I'd have to say that if you're having problems with SuSE, then you'll definately have problems with FC2 (or any other distro for that matter). SuSE is one of the most newb friendly distribution available.

In my experience, people who experience problems with SuSE just haven't configured something correctly. Usually because it's packaged with oh so many apps/packages people tend to try to install everything they see, leaving their system full of a lot of junk they don't need, and aren't paying attention when they break a dependency or 2.
 
Old 10-17-2004, 01:56 PM   #6
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Despite what many on this board would like to believe, Linux can get bugs... that aren't always user error, though most undoubtedly are.

I have Suse 9.1 pro installed on a second partition of my laptop in a dual boot with XP.

After several distros taking up space on my drive but still looking for a good distro for me I tried Suse 9.1 after a few reviews and others talking about it I gave it a shot.. and had problems. While it detected all my hardware just fine (except wireless card), it had..bugs. For example, YAST didn't work porperly, it wouldn't open, wouldn't update..etc. Suse would hang often, it was sluggish (I have a 2.4 p4)..etc.

Then I decided to try a little trick I learned from Windows... I reinstalled it and it has worked fine since. Except still no wireless (haven't had time to mess with it) and it's currently in hibernation because of lack of decent software I need but it works great.

Suse is definately one of the more polished distros, much moreso than FC in my opinion.
 
Old 10-18-2004, 12:16 PM   #7
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Suse is definately one of the more polished distros, much moreso than FC in my opinion.
Damn right!
SuSE is the only RPM based distro that I like. . . and the only thing I don't like about SuSE is it's RPM system.

Yast is great. SaX2 is gold. Great software titles on the installation DVD. SuSE rocks for a desktop distro.

However, I am running Slackware for my desktop now... reason being is that I like the extra tweaking you can do with Slack vs. SuSE.

But anyway, back on topic.

Yes, SuSE could have some bugs... but you can't rule out faulty CD media, user error, iffy kernel drivers, etc... The fault hardly ever lies just on SuSE's side. They put out a solid desktop distro, and I would suggest it to anyone who wants to kick off using Linux. (I started on RedHat, and that left such a bad taste in my mouth about Linux...)
 
  


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