desktoplinux.com — Someone just asked me whether, now that Novell's become buddies with Microsoft, I'll be turning away from Novell/SUSE as one of my favorite Linux distributions. My answer is no. I'm sticking with SUSE Linux on both my desktops and servers. Here's why.
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subgeniusdNov 6, 2006
End of article :"I've said it before, and I'll say it again. What I like isn't proprietary or open-source software. What I like is software that works, and works well. And, by that pragmatic yardstick, SLED is still the desktop to beat, in my book."Take that FSF fundamentalists!!
gnutzuNov 7, 2006
Bu Bu Bu...As long as we still have true free market choice, that's fine.SuSE was the distro that opened up my Linux World so many years ago. (O.K., so it's only about five years ago, but we all know that computer years are like dog years.)Even if I still allow SuSE in my private life, it can no longer be my main distro. In fact, I'd been feeling guilty about not spending more time with a purely free distro anyway.I know that we are running like scared rabbits now, but I don't think that we can afford to allow our free market choices to be squeezed out or absorbed by the monopolistic Borg.So, I'm going to go participate more in the FSF World now and hope that there are many more choices for the generation's to come.Good luck, and enjoy.
naxxNov 8, 2006
I wouldn't be surprised if the author changes his stance toward SUSE in the next couple of years.
meneerrNov 9, 2006
Crappy review of an idiot that doesn’t know what he is doing.He complained a total of two times of not being able to take a screenshot of an open menu.Dude, try pressing the print-screen button on your keyboard. It will take a screenshot of an open menu or whatever.Then he tries to explain how to get some multimedia working. But its inaccurate, not to mention he makes some awfully wrong assumptions. For example: he tries to install xine, and then he needs w32codecs. He then thinks its w32codecs that make his mpeg’s play. Dude, xine uses ffmpeg, which plays mpeg, avi, wmv. FFMpeg can fall back to w32codecs for formats it does not support natively (ffmpeg are opensource codecs). W32Codecs actually contain binary codecs and will only work on the 386-family.Then he complains that eventhough xine plays his videos, totem does not. No totem uses gstreamer. You will need the following gstreamer-plugins: gstreamer-ffmpeg (yes, the same engine xine uses, so you dont even have to install xine), gstreamer-pitfaldll (fall back to w32codecs)The only thing I could agree with, is that it should just work out of the box if you pay the 50 bucks. Make it 51 bucks, pay for the patents: problem solved. That is the kind of edge they need to compete with free distro’s like Ubuntu.He also complains about the lack of arial font. Arial==Helvetica. Microsoft changed two pixels from the Helvetica font, so they didn’t have to pay for it. They had to give it a new name, Arial. The rest of the world (printers, typesetters, designers, newspapers) still refer to Helvetica. Which is now free, and installed with Linux. If you know as much computers and operating systems as my cat does, don’t go posting articles and pretend to be all professional with that.He also keeps praising the brilliant zen-installer that installs a package with its dependencies. Hold the presses. Who knew it was possible? That’s a miracle. Ehm, ever played with debian based distro’s. They have solved all this dependency and package issues years ago. (where were you?) Debian, Ubuntu, Linspire, Freespire, Knoppix, etc. they all do exactly this. If there is a conflict it will try to replace packages which have alternatives if that solves the problem, unless you explicitly installed that package. And for debian based distro’s its not just the front-end that takes care of it (like with the zen-installer). If I go to a website and click on a .deb file (a debian package) it will open up an installation dialog. If I need any extra packages that are available in the repositories, it will download and install them.Please, if you clients demand linux. Go find a new career, because I do hope you are not the one responsible for installing this.I would have commented on your site, if only it didn’t force me fill in a questionnaire. You need my street-address before you going to allow me to comment. If you have any dutch person in your database, you are probably breaking our laws. You have to register with our goverment how and where you store that information if it contains things like our address or phone-number. But seriously, its 2006. The mailinglists days are over. And for a site that hosts a linux-article, go check your website with firefox, konqueor or opera. The title (i think) at the top-right is all messed up.