Suse 9.2

[bjpatrick]

Anyone had the chance to play around with Suse 9.2? Just wondering because thinking of dual booting my PC and not really interested in the Fedora code.

 

[mstokes]

I've been using SuSE 9.2 for a month and so far it has been quite solid. I'm currently installing an Akeni live help and live support system using SuSE as a test platform. The only problem encountered so far is the crypto package that it comes with.

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hardware: AMD 64 bit
Ati x700 video card
1 gig of ram

software: Akeni Live Help system
http://www.akeni.com

 

[ChrisLudwig]

Suse 9.2 is my favorite so far. I also run RedHat and Mandrake.

 

[silverpig]

Meh, I don't really like Fedora/Mandrake/SuSE anymore... A little too "graphical" for me

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[bjpatrick]

Heard good things referencing Gentoo. Played around with Debain but did not like the slow progress that the distro follows. I prefer close to the cutting edge referencing linux.

 

[silverpig]

Yeah, gentoo is pretty new. There are a lot of kernel devs lurking the gentoo forums, so you have a lot of options there. There's always very beta-level software in portage, but you have to set your configs to allow it... otherwise you only get tested stable packages.

A few things to know about gentoo:

1. You'll hear a lot about "optimizations" and "extreme CFLAGS" in your compilers. Most of it is bullsh!t. Extreme CFLAGS break your system more often than they help. The best to use is:

-march=<cpu type here> -02 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe

That's safe. Anything else could possibly break your system, but there are stable configs that will net you a few percent increase in some apps, but they are very picky and not worth the time troubleshooting.

The optimizations mainly come with nptl, prelink, and knowing what is on your system.

2. USE flags are your friend (read about them).

3. emerge sync && emerge world
This will automatically update every single package on your system... it's great.

4. Search the forums. Every single problem I've ever had with gentoo has been solved by the community. Just search for your problem: "can't build firefox on amd64" and you'll find a few threads with titles like: "Firefox build fails on amd64 ***SOLVED***" The community is great.

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[chuck232]

What do you plan on doing with your Linux install?

I've tried a few different distros in the past. Being a relative newb to Linux, I wanted something relatively easy. I basically mess around with Linux for S and Gs. It's a good project to work on I find.

I wrote up a little thing about my Linux experiences and it's from a starting user kind of view so don't slaughter it if it's not totally right.

<A HREF="http://nfiniti.blogspot.com/2005/05/linux-misconceptions.html" target="_new">Linux writeup from my blog</A>

<A HREF="http://nfiniti.blogspot.com" target="_new">nfiniti plus one - my blog</A>