[NTLUG:Discuss] <sigh> Which distro this time?

[Gilbert Morrow]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
> wrote:

> My previous message about the hard disk may be the smaller of my two
> worries.
>
> Just ran the Open SuSE Updater for 10.3 and was informed that this was
> the last security update.  Looking on the Open SuSE site it looks like I
> could upgrade to 11.2.
>
> Do I want to do that?  I seem to remember horror stories about upgrades.
>
> 11.2 comes with KDE 4 and Thunderbird 3 beta 4, I've heard about KDE 4
> (not good) and wonder about Thunderbird 3 beta, any comments from
> others?  KDE3 can be installed but isn't supported.
>
> The last time I switched OSes was to SuSE 10.3 because IDE/ATA support
> had recently changed and there were plenty of issues with the
> distributions using it (Red Hat, CentOS).  SuSE hadn't gone to it yet
> and so my hard drive and CD devices worked.  Has this issue been resolved?
>
> What about other alternatives.  I've used Red Hat and CentOS, only
> played with Debian/Kubuntu.  Any thoughts given my situation?
>
> Stay with openSUSE 11.2 is okay with KDE4.3.3 , LXDE is a pretty good GUI
as well .
Avoid Ubuntu at all cost , Red Hat 12 is pretty snappy with KDE 4.3.3 .
openSUSE has made great strides in the update/upgrade department .
Sorry Mark S. but Windows 9.10 , uh I mean Ubuntu 9.10 is not to my liking .

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