[mdlug] dell optiplex 760

[Robert Adkins]

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> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Adam Tauno Williams
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 11:27 AM
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> Subject: Re: [mdlug] dell optiplex 760
> 
> 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.
> 

  Both distros supported my hardware "the same". It's just that with Ubuntu,
it installed the driver for my wireless broadcom based nic without a fuss.
Under OpenSuse, I had to jump through some hoops and do things more
manually.

  Ubuntu lacked the ability to, via a clear gui interface, to tell itself
which physicaly ethernet card to use with which IP Address in a machine
being setup as a router. Ubuntu kept deciding (seemingly on a whim) which IP
address to assign to each card at every boot. OpenSuse allows you to tell it
which physical device uses which IP address or addressing method right from
the getgo.

  Those are both "little things" in the grand scheme of things and sometimes
little things matter differently.

  OpenSuse comes with more "power user" tools out of the box and the
availability to install those tools quite easily via YAST. Ubuntu is geared
towards the neophyte user and specifically limits or eliminates from their
official software repositories some tools that are geared towards the power
user.

	Regards,
	Rob