HAY GUYS

pengudeus · Local time: Jan 14, 2007, 11:51 PM

I started Linux by using Knoppix several years back and enjoyed using it. However, I didn't really consider using it as a primary OS. So I toyed with another Linux distribution. I don't remember the name of it. I just remember that I hated it with a passion.

A friend of mine recommended Slackware. I decided to try it out. Lo and behold, I fell in love with it. Eventually, I fell in love with it so much that it replaced Windows for nearly everything. I don't do gaming on computers often since I have a handy dandy PS2 for that sort of thing, so moving away from Windows was no heart-breaker.

I got curious as the months went by. I decided to try other distributions, including SUSE 9, Gentoo, and a few other Debian deviants. I didn't like SUSE very much at the time and Gentoo didn't work out because of a poor configuration on my part. So I switched back to Slackware and stuck with it.

Later, at work, I tried out SLED 10. This turned out to be a VERY nice distribution. In fact, I haven't used Windows at work since I installed it. It works well with our Novell network.

So...Slackware at home and SLED 10 at work.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

pengudeus · Local time: Jan 15, 2007, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by CelticWhisper

I'll assume that SLED is SuSE Linux Enterprise Distribution or something to that effect. That said, have they trimmed down the bloat at all?
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. They've trimmed down the bloat a lot. My biggest problem with SUSE 9 was the size of it and though you can choose to not install certain things, a first-time user may not know what they're going to need and what they aren't. (YAST? What's YAST? Who needs it?

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It performs very nicely. My only real beef with it is the menu interface which is really a love-hate relationship. I love it because it's simple, easy to use, and is pretty sexy. I hate it because it's not customizable and it doesn't list every app that I have installed on my system. But then again, that's my issue with Gnome in general. It seems that Gnome loves to, by default, display only gnome and X11 related apps as opposed to KDE which gave me a list of everything. I'm sure there's a way to add other applications to the menu, but since KDE does it already, I really don't think I should have to. Maybe I'm just spoiled.

There's nowhere I can't reach.