26 Dec
2011
26 Dec
'11
5:49 p.m.
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011, Felix Miata wrote:
I tried the 'live' just to have a look-see, not because I 'need' a
live distro. I have a spare netbook and decided to peek at some other
distros.
when it was sluggish, I certainly wasn't motivated to go further and
install it. but I concur with you that it is not an adequate test of
the distro in its natural environment.
On 2011/12/25 00:44 (GMT-0500) Felmon Davis composed:
yes, before zypper. I have noticed the improvements (from reading the
newsgroups).
maybe I should try it again but I'm not sure why.
...I sort of abandoned OpenSUSE a while ago
as I grew to like apt-get.
Before openSUSE created zypper? Maybe it's time for another try. I recently
did a live-boot of it on a 1gb netbook and it seemed
inordinately sluggish while other live distros were sprightlier.
probably could be configured to better effect but I didn't bother.
"Live" distros are an art all their own. For this reason, I only use the
original, Knoppix, when I need a live Linux. For normal installations, openSUSE with KDE3 have
always worked best
for me. Now with System V init having been replaced or set for
replacement, my distaste for Debian clumping of everything into only
two runlevels may disappear, which in turn might lead me to a new
preference.
guess I'm indifferent to this limitation. I agree it's no fun mucking
in inittab.
F.
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Felmon Davis
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