[CLUE-Tech] United Linux

[Richard Knechtel]

At 11:39 PM 5/31/02 -0600, you wrote:
>At first I thought it was a great idea, but now that I've read a little 
>more it seems like it should be called Loser's United Linux.  If you look 
>at who has joined together, it's all the distributions that don't have 
>much success with average users - sort of a collection of wanna-be's.   I 
>have tried each of the distributions, but as a person with  an exclusive 
>interest in a desk top linux distribution, none of them have cut it.  SuSE 
>7.3 flat out refused to install on my machine, and it would be too 
>expensive to purchase SuSE 8.0 only to gamble on whether or not it would 
>install.  A friend of mine in Hawaii has SuSE 8.0 professional, but he 
>told me to stick with Mandrake.  Caldera was okay, but it is annoyingly 
>secure wouldn't allow me to configure ICEwm the way I want.   Turbo 7.0 
>ended up being unstable although it had a very nice installer.  So it 
>seems that each has a comparatively tiny market share.  At the moment, I 
>feel Mandrake is best, but in the long run we "hobbyists" who are 
>interested in an alternative to M$ could end up moving to pure Debian.

I have had more luck with SuSE than other distros.  I had been using Red 
Hat from Version 3.03 --> V5.2 Then tried to install/use V6.0. That was a 
major abortion!  I went over to SuSE at version 6.2 and am now at 8.0.  I 
tried Turbo Linux and had bad luck.  Then I tired Mandrake 7.2 and didn't 
have much luck.  But, SuSE has never failed me.  Heck 7.2 was so flawless I 
can even now print to my HP722c which wasn't supported very well bay ANY 
distro. Now I can print in not only B&W but also color!  I see it as that 
good old German engineering! Heck why do you think the U.S. and Russia were 
fighting for the German scientists at the end of WWI?  I just hope that 
SuSE doesn't screw itself out of this UnitedLinux garbage.  Personally I 
think it is a BIG mistake.  Heck IBM already supports SuSE very well.  It 
seems the "hobbist" distro's are all these new little distro's popping up 
all over the place. I think the biggest ones out there are Red Hat, SuSE, 
Slackware, Debian, Mandrake, and you might be able to throw in FreeBSD 
albiet not being a Linux distro.  The rest don't have enough visibility to 
really count in there.  But the nice thing about all the Linux distro's out 
there is that you have something called a CHOICE.  Wierd concept I know. 
But it is something you don't have with Windows. Your only choice is 
Win3.1, Win95, Win98, WinNT, Win2K, WinXP.  If MS has it's way everyone 
will have two choices Win2K and WinXP, and eventually one choice 
WinXP.  Anyway enough of the distro war....