[huskerlug] Re: Mepis vs SuSE

  • From: "Eric Penne" <epenne@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:47:14 -0500 (CDT)

The guys at The Linux Link Tech show were talking about Kanotix and how it
is completely compatible with Debian.  Starting as a Live-CD it has a very
easy install to the hard drive.

Eric








>       Rather reluctantly, I am going to have to say that Simply-MEPIS
> wins.  This doesn't even have to do with the official SuSE, but
> with what I would think many SuSE users would use because the
> official SuSE doesn't have, a full set of Media programs.
>       Apt-Get has been destructive for me on SuSE since 7.3. It has
> continued to be through versions 9.0 and 9.3. (Oh, don't put on
> DOSEMU or link to your icon for the floppy will stop working on
> KDE, not Gnome).  Some group of SuSE enthusiasts are going to
> have to put a tighter rein on the apt-get for it.
>       Mepis you can downgrade back to the original program, if the new
> one doesn't work, and I haven't seen anything they have with
> apt-get that will serious conflict with one another.  I also
> found that changing such things as screen resolution is not hard
> to do on the installed Mepis, if you have an install disk around.
> I am beginning to think Novell was not good for SuSE.  Too Bad.
> Mepis gets the biggest chunk of my disk space.  ---Jim
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