Greetings from Guelph.
What does the subject line refer to? I used to be a compulsive distro-hopper. I installed so many distros since January 2006 on my desktop that I thought I was going to burn out my hard drive! I installed and removed Suse 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 multiple times trying out other distros. (Virtualization did not appeal to me.) I was addicted!!!
Finally, I stopped after Suse 11.0. ( I hope).
Now, my new guilt is that I have no bugs to report. On my ancient Dell P111 866mhz with 512mb ram from the year 2000 everything just works, mouse keyboard, webcam, dvd writer, coffee stains, everything! My posts are boring!
But, with my growing Linux knowledge, I find I have helped out some other folks. Maybe my dark addiction has had a positive result?
Thanks for listening. 
Need some advice about women (or men)? Cars? The general chat forum is like idling your engine while waiting for the race. Keep your posting skills sharp there.
But, with my growing Linux knowledge, I find I have helped out some other folks. Maybe my dark addiction has had a positive result?
Ya gotta love it when that happens. 
The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.
You also have the beneficial point of view to compare distros and the Pro’s and Con’s of each as well as seeing what you like about one that maybe openSUSE can benefit from. The Soapbox can benefit from cross-distro experience.
I’ve been a hopper for some time now and am still settling down with openSUSE but as I look around these forums I realize I didn’t learn as much as I could have. Oh well.
You are so right! Before Suse 11.0 Yast did not compare favorably with the speed of GUI Synaptic or Debian’s apt-get and aptitude utilities. Now, however, the first thing I compared with OpenSuse 11.0 was Yast2’s speed. While not as fast as apt-get or Synaptic, it is a big improvement over 10.2 and 10.3 and seems pretty zippy. Also, you can speed up Yast even more by not refreshing the repos each time. Further, if you drop to the command line zypper tool then you are approximating if not equalling apt-get and aptitude for speed.
I am still running the latest Kubuntu on a second hard drive for comparison. As I notice different things that OpenSuse may possibly benefit from I will post them.
Cheers.
Hey, just had lunch at Shoeless Joe’s there a couple of weeks ago.
I think it’s an advantage to being in Guelph. Head across the 401 towards Toronto, and you’ll find that the closer you get, you need spend increasingly more on your hardware to accomplish the same things, with considerably less performance…
Cheers,
KV
I was like you, probably much worse, but a few years before. If I could have €10 for each time I have installed an OS, probably I’d be a wealthy man. And I did kill my hard disk.
I am a lot quieter now (I haven’t even tried the latest Slackware or Fedora yet), but still an operating systems freak.
My posts are boring too but there’s always hope:cool:
Here is my analogy for the OS world.
M$ is like a large, gas chugging convertible with an automatic transmission. It makes all the decisions for you and changes gears going uphill whether you want it to or not. And, if it breaks, it is costly to fix.
Linux is like a 1975 Triumph spitfire with a manual transmission. A few tweaks and you know you are in control. And with the help of forum friends, you can even fix it on your own!
Bummer… I’m driving a Microsoft?! :eek:
(98 Pontiac Sunfire Convertible I wish, oh how I wish could be manual transmission! Maybe not “gas chugging” so it’s Microsoft-light)
you must be the inspiration for this cartoon: http://xkcd.com/456/
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
That is a funny cartoon:)
And BTW, A Texan in Denmark? How does that (very) unusual combination work?
Looked at cartoon. I laughed so hard I almost had one of my asthma attacks!
I wondered why I had all those oil stains under my computer desk. 
> And BTW, A Texan in Denmark? How does that (very) unusual combination
> work?
very well, thanks…
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
> Looked at cartoon. I laughed so hard I almost had one of my asthma
> attacks!
lets be careful out there!!
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
This is my last post for this thread, I promise.
It’s time to come clean. This is like a Distro-Hoppers Anonymous meeting.
Here is my trail of guilt:
Jan. 2006 Knoppix live
Feb. 2006 Dual boot XP and Kanotix
May 2006 Go all Linux: Kanotix
September 2006 OpenSuse 10.1
Sept. - Nov. Debian, OpenSuse 10.1
Start studying Linux books - Hacking Knoppix, The Linux Phrasebook, articles, Linux Today etc.
Jan. 2007 PC Linux OS
March OpenSuse 10.2
May PC LinuxOS 2007
Oct. OpenSuse 10.3
June 2008 OpenSuse 11.0
More books; Ubuntu Linux Toolbox and thinking of buying Suse Linux Toolbox
You get the idea…
But, I really like OpenSuse 11.0 and, I also like Kubuntu Hardy on hard drive 2 for the Debian flavour. But Suse is my “production” system. Solid as a rock.
Confession over!
Hi Freshmeadow
Of course you don’t know me, because I use a different nick, but if you want to know my Kanotix one I can pm you