I have been a hard-core user of OpenSuSE, but with the last version Novell released (10.1), it was too unstable for my uses as well. I moved over to Ubuntu to try it out (plus it was more light-weight on the older computer I was putting it on). I will say that after using it for quite some time now, I have no urgency to go back to Novell. If you are a KDE user, go for Kubuntu. - Joey On 12/26/06, Randy Clarksean <rclark at lakesplus.com> wrote: > > Ok ... first off ... I am NOT trying to start any sort of major argument > on the list ... so keep that in mind and please send me your thoughts > and comments off list if at all possible. I have held off posting this > just because I did not want to hear all kinds of arguments on the list. > > So ... here goes. I am looking for a "stable" "free" Linux > distribution. Yes ... yes ... that is relatively vague, but let me > clarify a bit as I do have some requirements. > > I use Linux for just about all of my work - word processing, number > crunching, email, etc. I currently have a FC5 distribution on the > system and it is just NOT stable enough (yes I realize it is a > development platform and knew that going in). I have had to shutdown > and reboot several times in the last few weeks - that is just > unacceptable for what I need and do. > > So ... I am looking for a release that is stable, has good drivers, and > has plans to be around for awhile - or has been around for awhile ... i > do not have time to install several distros and see which one I like > either. > > Current system: > > Dual Xeon 3.2 Ghz (533 MHz FSB) > - motherboard is more of a workstation type board. > 4 GB RAM > USB - use for printing, would like camera features > Networking - built in gigabit > 4 250 GB SATA drives (need good drivers for these) > - want to have them in a RAID configuration > - currently using software raid - not happy with it > - probably will go to PCI slot card for RAID > - motherboard has hardware RAID > (but not for this number of drives) > > USB and SATA issues SEEM to be my main issues - based on what I can see > in my log files or in terminal windows. > > So ... please ... no flaming or ranting ... just experience or comments > relative to different distributions would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Randy > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061226/02f2136a/attachment.html