On Mon, 26 Dec 2011, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/12/25 00:44 (GMT-0500) Felmon Davis composed:
...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.
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 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.
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.
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.