So I installed OpenSuse 11 on a 2Gb, 2.8 Intel Core 2 Deo, 500 Gb new machine. First day it boots up fancy and nice, USB works, KNetAttach connects to my windows share on the network, the desktop is smooth and looks good.
All of a sudden all hell breaks loose. Every few hours something just does not work. Network cards dont boot randomly. I did not install OpenSuse to browse forums to fix the more trival of issues. So I cant connect to USB, my windows box on the network, Samba on Linux wont work. I have a box on the network that just wont work. And when I look up the web, I see that people are facing the same kinda issues. If I sit and read these posts I will take hours to my data out of this machine.
I need to move to something else more stable so that I can get back to business :).
Eventually you’ll find what you can work with and what you cant…
If your looking for a recommendation there isn’t one, many have no problems with Suse… Go looking but I suspect you’ll never quite find it all you just have to decide what annoys you more than, what doesn’t…
If there was a perfect distro there would only be one…
I’ve found different distros work better on different hardware. If openSuse doesn’t work, try Kubuntu or Mandriva or PClinuxOS. One of those is bound to work for you. Good luck.
I had the opportunity to test several Linux distros with Intel P4 Box.
I began with Fedora version 10, there was a lot of problems , then I tried Debian ,Mandriva, CentOS, Kubuntu, Mint Linux and OpenSolaris all generated problems for my Machine.
Now I use, OpenSuse 11, It’s very stable, and works perfect.
It’s true, Your hardware is the key determining factor for having a stable Linux. You must match the hardware and Linux distro.
jsiddharth wrote:
> So I installed OpenSuse 11 . . .
> I need to move to something else more stable so that I can get back to
> business :).
well DUH!
you could have EASILY learned how UNSTABLE and troublesmoe openSUSE
11.0 was when it was released (what, now over a year ago??)…
all you had to do was use the excellent Google to search this site for
PROBLEMS with openSUSE 11.0…
OR, did you mean to write openSUSE 11.1? if so, you didn’t happen to
install KDE4 did you? if so you could have EASILY learned how UNSTABLE
KDE4 is…so DUH!!
or, are you talking about SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11? (aka SLED
11) if THAT is your problem then you DO have a problem and you need to
resolve that with the maker, Novell…
and, in that search for STABILITY you might have found more that one
who recommended for a stable/usable/mature environment to stick with
openSUSE 10.3, or BUY SLED 10/11…
With the smart ass replies you guys just gave I doubt we’ll see him again. Thanks guys for losing another one. Pretty soon the only people that will be using openSuse is smart asses. I guess you’ll be happy then.
