[huskerlug] Re: Mepis vs SuSE
- From: Jim Worrest <jworrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 03:28:13 -0500
My Mepis is probably upgraded to 3.3.1-1 or something like that, no
I don't use the beta version, and I haven't had the best experience with
beta versions of Mepis.
If a distro doesn't have RealPlayer (Helix--and I hear that gxine
may be getting there for playing those files) it is a worthless distro
to me. Mepis was set up to the multi-media thing, right from the CD.
The realplayer set up in Mepis seems to work better than SuSE. Hardware
detection in Mepis was even better than Kanotix, and even better than
SuSE. The SuSE 9.3 Pro EVAL edition doesn't even recognize my Logitech
Marble mouse as a three button mouse (actually 4 button) but Mepis does.
SuSE abandoned Ham (Amateur) Radio completely --to the best of my
knowledge--Mepis (and Debian) has full support of it, still. I will say,
I can use some of my Ham Radio program off of the SuSE 9.0 Pro DVD, and
SuSE did a good job of having the later distro tolerate the earlier
programs, where it could.
I would think many in the academia would even be somewhat worked up
about SuSE since it has less support for programs that University world
would want to use, like R-base, which Mepis supports besides everything
else that SuSE is supporting.
SuSE, to my knowledge, is a very stable framework, as long as you
don't go outside the official distribution. It's YAST, SAX2, etc., are
hard to beat. If everything you need is on the official distribution
that you need is on the official distro I can highly recommend it. The
--unofficial-- apt-get for SuSE is the Venus Fly trap for Linux users,
though. You buzz around it, and get some programs you really want, and
then unexpectedly it snaps you, crushes your set-up.
I'm not sure about server side of things, but Mepis works just as
well, I would say better than SuSE when it comes to the desktop. ---Jim
Jake Churchill wrote:
>OK, I'm reading all this about Mepis and I looked on their website and
>they have all test versions of their distro right now. Is that what
>you're using? I'm currently using SuSE 9.2 and I'm happy with it and I
>have 9.3 on my server. Mepis is advertised as a "Point and Click" linux
>which I'm not sure that I like. Other than multimedia support, what is
>so great about it? What version are you using?
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>On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 20:48 -0500, Jerry Kreps wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 17 August 2005 20:00, Jim Worrest wrote:
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>>> It is too bad that someone didn't make apt-get a little more
>>>reliable for SuSE. As I said, I don't think there hasn't been a time I
>>>haven't had a major problem with any SuSE distro. I'm beginning to think
>>>if Novell didn't fire a lot of people working for SuSE (though they
>>>weren't that huge) Novell may have transferred some of the workers to
>>>other sections. Some things about 9.3 are probably better than 9.0, but
>>>I have a feeling there might be some rough edges about it.
>>>
>>>
>>I think Novell came to the same conclusions you did and decided to follow
>>RH's
>>example and start OpenSUSE.org. I believe they are hoping that a
>>significant number of top flight programmers will jump on board and add to
>>SuSE in the same way FOSS developers improved Fedora. Novell will take
>>their work, add their proprietary NetWare layers and market the result, sans
>>source for the proprietary stuff. I wish the well, but I will stick with
>>Debian class distros like MEPIS.
>>JLK
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