Dennis Allison wrote at 2003-11-3 22:04 -0800:
... Linux distributions ... There are a number of candidate--Suse, Mandrake, Debian, etc.
Anyone care to document their experiences, good and bad?
I used SuSE Linux from version 4 to version 8.1. Twice, upgrading has been a nightmare. The worst has been version 8.1: * Hangs all around: during installation, after boot, in rescue system all caused by a missing USB keyboard driver module (I have an USB keyboard). * "init.d/boot" not installed -- consequence: file system not remounted read/write, thousands of errors on startup * all browsers without working Java support * severe kernel problems; "APIC" disabled to work around this problems -- broke commercial product (VMWare) * unhelpful installation help desk I decided to switch to Debian the next time I make a Linux upgrade. -- Dieter