[Discuss] SuSe Strikes out so does Mandriva?

[DR]

John,

Take a look at Centos. centos.org It is a Red Hat Enterprise Server clone.

Deid

John Blomfield wrote:
> This is a continuing saga of myself and Joan trying different distros to 
> prepare for the Linux SIG at BB&C.  Those that have followed the 
> discussion so far will have heard Joan's tails of woe with SuSe.  I will 
> probably leave it for now on my demo multi distro box until I find 
> another likely candidate.  It may be hard to find one distro that works 
> on all hardware but at least its worth trying to eliminate those that 
> have the most problems.  For the record my demo box is rather old and in 
> principle most distros should be able to handle it easily.  The critical 
> item is usually the video card which in this case is a nVidia GeForce 2 
> MX/MX400.  So far Debian, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, Fedora and SuSe handled it out 
> of the box but Joan says SuSe does not like her nVidia GeForce 6600 or 
> her Logitek Trackball.  All my cases are full installs whereas Joan is 
> doing Live CD's.
> 
> My latest efforts are with Mandiva Free Live KDE CD.  I have download 
> images from two different mirrors and both had good MD5 checks but 
> failed on three burn verification (I burned three CD's).  However, I 
> went ahead and ran one on my demo box which failed to recognize my video 
> card.  Just to make sure the CD was ok I ran it on my new computer which 
> has an nVidia GeForce 7300 3D card and it worked perfectly 3D effects an 
> all!  However, I have not been able to get it to work on my demo box.  
> Mandriva only provides the one live CD for free. Its full set 
> (Enterprise) is 49.00 Euro's.  I don't think I will bother to try 
> playing around with it any further, as I would need to see if I could 
> make it install as Level 3 and then configure the X config file with the 
> correct driver.  Not something to recommend to a newbie!
> 
> So I am now looking for recommendations for two distros for my two spare 
> partitions.  Distros that could be suitable for newbies to try when they 
> are ready or interested to progress beyond Ubuntu.
> 
> John Blomfield
> 
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