Since when do you use (open)SuSE ?

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#1

Hi everyone,
this is my first post here

fortunately, I do not experience any problems with openSuSE at the moment, so let me start with a simple question to you…

I myself started with SuSE Linux 9.0 which my father bought some day and I found a very cool OS (with excellent manuals btw - it was the boxed version)
I had it installed dual-boot with xp but never had time to really get into the usage of 9.0 so it was merely a side project
my active use of Linux began with openSuSE 10.3 (Alpha) which i liked from the first moment and now here I am waiting for 11.0

#2

I jumped on SUSE when 9.1 came out. Before that I used Mandrake (now Mandriva) but slowly got fed up with it so I decided to try another distro. The main reason for me choosing for SUSE over the other distros was YaST. Since SUSE 9.1, I’m 100% SUSE here.

#3

Use it since 9.0 (2003).

I was using Linux for 2 years before (RH, Mandrake). Now, openSUSE is my main distribution, although I sometimes use Arch Linux too.

#4

I’m another one, who entered the SuSE-Linux-World with 9.0.
I think I was using Linux (Debian on a server) for about 1 year before.

#5

I started with 10.2 beta4. Yep, I’m a new-comer :). I was on slack before that.

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#6

Started using SUSE with 9.2 Pro shortly after Novell’s acquisition of
SuSE.

Prior to that, I used RedHat, going back to 5.2. I saw the light and now
run 10.1 (x2), 10.3 (x2), and have 11.0 RC1 on one laptop.

I often wonder if there’s something wrong with me having more computers
in the house than people. :slight_smile:

Jim

#7

There is nothing wrong with that. I have four computers in my house (only three people, one of them a four-year old). My brother lives with my parents and they have 9 computers (one of them an HP Proliant server! :D).

I started using SuSE with 10.0.

#8

I often wonder if there’s something wrong with me having more computers in the house than people

Yes, but I don’t think it really has anything to do with computers…anyway [ahem] my first taste of Linux at all was after the merge of Novell & SUSE and I installed 9.2 pro on my work machine in dual boot mode just to check it out. Currently running full time on SLED but plan to move to openSUSE 11 after it’s released. Luckily someone showed me the benefits of keeping my home directory on a separate partition.

#9

lowobu wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> this is my first post here
<snip>

I started with SuSE 5.4 or 6.0 then went on with SUSE and now am using
openSUSE

houghi

The blue light suddenly flashed on my horrified face. What a disaster!
Oh, the humanity! I never thought it would happen to me. How terrifying
it is to see for yourself “The Blue Screen of Death”.

#10

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:46:03 +0000, cybertaz wrote:

> Jim Henderson;1816433 Wrote:
>>
>>
>> I often wonder if there’s something wrong with me having more computers
>> in the house than people. :slight_smile:
>>
>> Jim
>
> There is nothing wrong with that. I have four computers in my house
> (only three people, one of them a four-year old). My brother lives with
> my parents and they have 9 computers (one of them an HP Proliant server!
> :D).

<G>

We have three people and three cats. At my desk alone I have 6
machines, two of them laptops.

Then my stepson has two - a laptop and a desktop. My wife uses a laptop.

There’s a somewhat dead Dell laptop on the bookshelf the other side of
the room - if I find a motherboard for it, that’ll be another test
machine for me.

Oh, and there’s a spare motherboard on my desk that I didn’t count in the
machine count.

Then we could get into my PC graveyard in the basement. Off the top of
my head, 2 Compaq Prosignia servers (486s), a 386 that actually has been
used a couple times in the last 5 years, two or three P-II/P-III
generation machines, a Zeos “pocket PC” (which was actually far too big
to be a “pocket PC” - V20 processor and a full keyboard, measured about
8" long by 3.5" deep, LCD screen, and the only removable media was a PC
card memory card.

Probably at least 2 other machines could be built from various components
laying around the basement.

On the handheld front, one iPaq (with Familiar Linux on it), and one Dell
Axim. The ZEOS machine probably better fits here, come to think. Oh,
and there’s a Palm Pro around here somewhere.

Fully 5 of my machines are on UPSes (plural - two APC units here).

Some might see this collection as a bit excessive. :slight_smile:

Jim

#11

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:56:04 +0000, kgroneman wrote:

>> I often wonder if there’s something wrong with me having more computers
>> in the house than people
>
> Yes, but I don’t think it really has anything to do with
> computers…

Yeah, but we’ve known each other for YEARS, too. It was, what, 1993 when
we first met online? And not long after that in person, maybe 1994 at my
first BrainShare. I still have the t-shirt from that around here
somewhere (that’s how I remember that that was my first year).

So you’re somewhat uniquely qualified in the current company to make the
above statement. You’ve known me longer than my wife has. :slight_smile:

> …anyway [ahem] my first taste of Linux at all was after the
> merge of Novell & SUSE and I installed 9.2 pro on my work machine in
> dual boot mode just to check it out. Currently running full time on
> SLED but plan to move to openSUSE 11 after it’s released. Luckily
> someone showed me the benefits of keeping my home directory on a
> separate partition.

I’m guessing Joe or Aaron there. :slight_smile:

Jim

#12

kgroneman wrote:
> Luckily someone showed me the benefits of keeping my home directory on
> a separate partition.

Not sure since what version, but now a default installation has /home on
a seperate partition. I thank the person who brought that to the
developers attention so that they were able to put it in.

houghi

The blue light suddenly flashed on my horrified face. What a disaster!
Oh, the humanity! I never thought it would happen to me. How terrifying
it is to see for yourself “The Blue Screen of Death”.

#13

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 14:46 +0000, lowobu wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> this is my first post here
>
> fortunately, I do not experience any problems with openSuSE at the
> moment, so let me start with a simple question to you…
>
> I myself started with SuSE Linux 9.0 which my father bought some day
> and I found a very cool OS (with excellent manuals btw - it was the
> boxed version)
> I had it installed dual-boot with xp but never had time to really get
> into the usage of 9.0 so it was merely a side project
> my active use of Linux began with openSuSE 10.3 (Alpha) which i liked
> from the first moment and now here I am waiting for 11.0
>
>

SuSE 4.x something… can’t remember.
Got really neat at SuSE 6.2 (reiserfs in beta)

openSUSE 10.3 is what I use now, in addition to SLES9/10.

#14

I began with RedHat 8.0 and after they stopped free support I for long searched new distro for me. I tried gentoo, slackware, mandrake, fedora and possibly others. Also I tried suse 9.0 and after that I found my self frequently back with suse although I still was searcing good distro.
After 9.2 i realized that why bother suse is darn good so i’ll stick with it.

Now I use opensuse every day

#15

Jim Henderson <Jim.Henderson@sysops.nsc> expounded:
> Started using SUSE with 9.2 Pro shortly after Novell’s acquisition of
> SuSE.

> Prior to that, I used RedHat, going back to 5.2. I saw the light and now
> run 10.1 (x2), 10.3 (x2), and have 11.0 RC1 on one laptop.

> I often wonder if there’s something wrong with me having more computers
> in the house than people. :slight_smile:

Nah, par for the course. We’re runnng 2:1 computers:people right now.

–
–Borg Consulate–
Cheap backup software, the bane of my existence

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#16

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:42:30 +0000, Victor of Borg wrote:

> Jim Henderson <Jim.Henderson@sysops.nsc> expounded:
>> Started using SUSE with 9.2 Pro shortly after Novell’s acquisition of
>> SuSE.
>
>> Prior to that, I used RedHat, going back to 5.2. I saw the light and
>> now run 10.1 (x2), 10.3 (x2), and have 11.0 RC1 on one laptop.
>
>> I often wonder if there’s something wrong with me having more computers
>> in the house than people. :slight_smile:
>
> Nah, par for the course. We’re runnng 2:1 computers:people right now.

Have you seen my list? I’m at 2:1 right now in “powered on and running”
just at my desk. 3:1 if I count the others that are actively used in the
house. Closer to 4:1 or even 5:1 if I count the graveyard. :slight_smile:

Jim

#17

I’m a newbie compared to some here: December 2005, Suse Linux 10.0

#18

It’s not the age that counts, it’s the mileage.

#19

Jim, between my parents, brother and I we have enough parts laying around to build at least 4 more pcs.

#20

Jim, between my parents, brother and I we have enough parts laying around to build at least 4 more pcs.

[phwew!] for a minute there I thought you were going to end that sentence with “people”…