8:03 PM - My Review of Suse
I've tried suse on another box recently. Previously i've tried Novell's Suse Live dvd and eval cd and dvd copies. Most of the time the disks would not read in any system after redownloading and burning on macs and pcs. (suse 10)
This time I downloaded suse 9.1 personal (iso) and installed it. I now see why everyone loved suse at a time. Prior to novell's monkeying it was a great product. Had I tried it seriously without my love for redhat, I would have grown to think its the best thing ever. Now I feel that redhat is very poor and yet newer suse builds won't install properly. I've talked to others who've had hardware and software errors like crazy. Maybe the upcoming 10.1 release will bring back the charm of this lovely linux distro.
Currently I recommend using an older version of gentoo, redhat enterprise linux 4 (not 3 if you have a radeon card), or 9.1 or older suse. Avoid Fedora core unless you like playing with firewalls and avoid ubuntu unless you don't do ANY programming whatsoever. If its literally a desktop, go for it. Sun's java desktop system release 1 was great as well. I've never tried jds 2 and jds 3 for linux is not widely available.
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