🚀 go-pugleaf

Michael Strates <mstrates@minkirri.apana.org.au> wrote in article
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> What prompted you to go to SUSE. AFAIK, there's no features offered in
> SUSE, that can't be satisfied in many of the 'normal' distributions. I
> also find their advertisments are pretty much weirdly worded, Comments?

Y.a.S.T. for starters and the fact that their ongoing work with X-Servers
for new graphics chips tells me they know what they are doing. They also
have a very healthy relationship with Elsa GmBH in Aachern, who make great
Graphics cards and who co-operate with them at every opportunity, which is
more than I can say for a certain US company who makes cards based on the
very same chips as Elsa - Diamond is the company to which I refer - they
(Diamond) are hopeless when it comes to any UNIX (or any)support. SuSE and
ELSA save the day in this regard.

I was actually chasing an X-Server for a nVidia Riva128, which they had
developed, and I discovered all about them whilst at the site looking at
the XServer. I can read enough German to get me through, then I discovered
the English pages they have on the German site, then I discovered their US
site and the rest is history.

For some reason I was biased against RedHat, thinking it didn't do Plug &
Pray devices (it must have been an old release announce where I read about
it), which is the opposite of the release due in December. And I was
actually on the verge of ordering Caldera OpenLinux Base, when it dawned on
me that Caldera wasn't the way to go seeing I am having difficulty with
dealing with the MS/Intel domination and general vapourware scene that is
WindowsNT4.

Caldera loses because they are currently in the process of suing MS. They
also have a kernel which is aging (2.0.29+) in comparison to SuSE and I
find their distribution a little "Over bundled" with commercial software
(it makes it more expensive when you do that).

I like to be different and so SuSE seems a perfect vehicle to do that with.

I am looking forward to my copy turning up from the USA (sigh! it's been
over 2 weeks now and still hasn't shown up here), and tossing WinNT (I
can't wait to rid myself of this operating system), and installing a
current and functional Linux.

I used to run Amigas because I wanted to be different (and I do believe
they are a better way of computing in the home) and I ran both Linux and
NetBSD/OpenBSD on them briefly, but as the 68k and i386 distributions are
on different source trees, I went back to AmigaOS.

I switched to WindowsNT and a much more powerful machine and I am certain
that SuSE Linux, which seems to be well engineered, and free of US hyper
marketing bloat about vapourware features, and it's popular in Europe, and
I personally have more in common with Europe than I do with the USA.

The USA is a great place, don't get me wrong, but the Europeans are smarter
and more sophisticated IMHO.

Ivan.