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.
<br><br>- Joey<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Randy Clarksean</b> <<a href="mailto:rclark@lakesplus.com">rclark@lakesplus.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ok ... first off ... I am NOT trying to start any sort of major argument<br>on the list ... so keep that in mind and please send me your thoughts<br>and comments off list if at all possible. I have held off posting this<br>
just because I did not want to hear all kinds of arguments on the list.<br><br>So ... here goes. I am looking for a "stable" "free" Linux<br>distribution. Yes ... yes ... that is relatively vague, but let me
<br>clarify a bit as I do have some requirements.<br><br>I use Linux for just about all of my work - word processing, number<br>crunching, email, etc. I currently have a FC5 distribution on the<br>system and it is just NOT stable enough (yes I realize it is a
<br>development platform and knew that going in). I have had to shutdown<br>and reboot several times in the last few weeks - that is just<br>unacceptable for what I need and do.<br><br>So ... I am looking for a release that is stable, has good drivers, and
<br>has plans to be around for awhile - or has been around for awhile ... i<br>do not have time to install several distros and see which one I like<br>either.<br><br>Current system:<br><br>Dual Xeon 3.2 Ghz (533 MHz FSB)<br>
- motherboard is more of a workstation type board.<br>4 GB RAM<br>USB - use for printing, would like camera features<br>Networking - built in gigabit<br>4 250 GB SATA drives (need good drivers for these)<br> - want to have them in a RAID configuration
<br> - currently using software raid - not happy with it<br> - probably will go to PCI slot card for RAID<br> - motherboard has hardware RAID<br> (but not for this number of drives)<br>
<br>USB and SATA issues SEEM to be my main issues - based on what I can see<br>in my log files or in terminal windows.<br><br>So ... please ... no flaming or ranting ... just experience or comments<br>relative to different distributions would be appreciated.
<br><br>Thanks in advance.<br><br>Randy<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br><a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org
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