[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE post 11.0 BAD NEWS - Need a new distro

[Leroy Tennison]

Robert Citek wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Stephen Davidson
> <gorky at freenet.carleton.ca> wrote:
>   
>> Suggestions?
>>     
>
> Just about every distro out there has a LiveCD so that you can
> test-drive before you install.  Burn a few different ones and see
> which ones work with your hardware and your requirements.  You could
> start with the top five from DistroWatch:
>
> 1  	Ubuntu
> 2 	Fedora
> 3 	Mint
> 4 	openSUSE
> 5 	Mandriva
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
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Seems like OpenSuSE has taken a wrong turn recently, I ended up dropping 
11.2 due to odd video problems among other things.  If you don't want to 
go the Ubuntu route but are looking for good app support Debian is 
pretty good.  However, Debian has it's quirks to watch out for.  They've 
gotten in a dispute with Mozilla and now supply their own variant of 
Firefox and Thunderbird which may be OK but they don't stay as current 
as I would like.  One area where they seem weak is "problem" support.  I 
went through a hard disk agony which I suspect was the motherboard 
(don't know, not using it again, don't want to find out).  When it 
trashed my disk so badly that partitions weren't even found the SuSE 
live CD was able to recover all.  When a Debian install was trashed (but 
not as badly) the Debian live CD didn't do much for me.  Maybe they had 
programs to do better repair but they weren't built in.