[mdlug] dell optiplex 760

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 11:18 -0400, Robert Adkins wrote:
> I personally prefer OpenSuse over Ubuntu, 

Agree,

> in my opinion, it is a much more
> powerful, in terms of readily available nitty-gritty power user tools that
> are available out of the box than Ubuntu. However, OpenSuse can take a
> little extra work to make function perfectly well with every piece of
> hardware that is available.

Disagree.  I find the hardware support in every distro [of the same
vintage] to be pretty much the same - IT IS THE SAME KERNEL!
Experienced differences are highly anecdotal and do not reflect what
anyone else, with even slightly different hardware, will experience.

I think the big advantages of openSUSE are
(a) more human packaging,  Ubuntu likes to limit dependencies by just
ignoring them and leaving you to figure out why some feature appears bu
doesn't work [minicom not requiring rz/sz for example].
(b) Yast.  Yast is fabulous.  You can configure just about everything in
Yast rather than having to try to find the tool or see even if the tool
to configure XYZ is installed.
(c) a significantly better signal-to-noise ration on mailing lists.

But I don't really care what you use - it is 99.44% the same software.

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