I’ll be getting an emachine em250 Monday. I’m debating opensuse or fedora. Would opensuse be a good choice? I’m using this primarily for two reasons.
I refill ink and toner cartridges. I’d LOVE great printer support for quick test jobs
I go to school online and my laptop is too big late at night when I just want to pop on, and view pdf’s or submit an exam. PDF support is a MUST. The way my school has it set up is that inside pdf’s, I’ll commonly have to click a link for yet another pdf inside that pdf. Foxit didn’t do it on windows, only adobe.
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It is a bit difficult to say that way. Depends more on what you like.
Why not try both, make it dual boot fedora and opensuse.
After a while working with them make your choice.
If you post the specs of your netbook (maybe not in chit chat but in
hardware/laptop maybe) you can expect some usefull feedback what fits your
machine I would say.
Both OpenSUSE and Fedora are very solid oses. I’ve been running them both on my cheap little netbook for the past several weeks … alternating between the two.
After 10+ years of using /suse/i almost exclusively, I think FC13 is the clear winner. You are much less likely to run into issues installing “restricted formats”. The integration work they have done with gstreamer/PackageKit is nothing short of AMAZING. Plug a new piece of hardware into a usb port … if additonal drivers, software, whatever is needed … it pops a box … “install XYZ” … “Yep!” … 30 seconds later your using the new hardware.
Anticdotially … I have been testing video playback on the two to try and discover a possible kernel bug. I can not offer any quantitative evidence, but OpenSUSE video playback freezes, stutters more frequently. I hope to make some time in the not so distant future to test this systematically.
