Hello all once again.
I have been away from openSUSE for a bit, but now I really think it is the distro I should be using! Just started Uni, and the distro used in the Linux Labs is CentOS 5.2 - so I installed that. Great, there I was coding away, but for everything else the outdated packages, especially GNOME was a bit annoying. So, whats red hat based but newer… Fedora 9!
Bad bad move! Oh dear me! Even my ethernet connection stopped working after first boot.
So, what is good that I know from the past that isn’t brown?
openSUSE. So, here I am once again. The DVD iso is nearly finished, but just have to wait for my actual disks to be delivered now before I can burn and install.
Hello world!
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> Bad bad move! Oh dear me! Even my ethernet connection stopped working
> after first boot.
Please do some research on KDE4.X vs KDE 3.5.X on OS11 before you make
the choice on which desktop to use. Otherwise you may end up grinding
your teeth needlessly. It’s all preference, but you need to know what to
expect going in.
Well CentOS is a clone of RHEL with the branding sanded off and really a server distro. It’s more for conservative, server apps that should keep working. If you want desktop gloss, wrong choice. Not sure why your labs use it unless they are training sysadmins or something like that. RHEL/CentOS5 is so conservative that PHP is stuck at 5.1 and I had to hunt around for some third-party PHP5.2 packages.
Don’t get me wrong, I admin some RHEL servers and they work fine, they just keep on working and working like a server OS should until a kernel update requires a reboot. But I would not choose CentOS for my personal use.
Anyway welcome back and enjoy Linux, whatever you decide on. Second those comments on KDE4 vs KDE3.5. I use KDE4 but I know there has been some unhappiness and general grumbling with it. It should improve with time but maybe not fast enough for some people. But not to fear, you can install both and switch between them on a per-session basis and see what you like. GNOME too if you prefer that. Or even Xfce. You’re spoilt for choice.
Well, on the KDE front - I prefer GNOME! Never really ever used XFCE, so yeh - will need to investigate that! Its a Computer Science degree, and more than likely CentOS was chosen if the people running it used RHEL, but didn’t wanna fork out for all those liscences!