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Post by Tsuroerusu » Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:37 pm

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Judland wrote: I also e-mailed Judd Vinet, encouraging him to make arrangements with you to get on the show.
Thanks Dave. I would be cool to talk to Judd. I'm really liking Arch the more I use it. I think Dan would really like Arch.
You know what, if Dann wants a nice intergrated distro, he should give SUSE 10.0 a whirl, I know he doesn't like RPM, but he can trow apt4rpm on there and then you almost don't know it's RPM.

When I set the system up I find it very manageable and not a pain at all, I prefer something like the ports system from FreeBSD, but if you use the right RPM wrappers, it bareable.

By the way Pat. have you tried KDE 3.5 yet? Arch already have packages for it.
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Post by Judland » Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:38 pm

Yeah, I'm liking it, too. :D It's more work to get things set-up, but I'm learning so much, and it really isn't all that difficult to understand.

Sure, Dann might like it. Although, it doesn't come with all of the codecs pre-installed. He'd have to "Pacman" them.... Or was that Linc, looking for a distro that had all that set-up by default? I can't remember.
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Post by Patrick » Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:40 pm

Tsuroerusu wrote:You know what, if Dann wants a nice intergrated distro, he should give SUSE 10.0 a whirl, I know he doesn't like RPM, but he can trow apt4rpm on there and then you almost don't know it's RPM.
Dan doesn't quite strike me as a Suse kinda guy. Just a wild guess! :)
Tsuroerusu wrote:By the way Pat. have you tried KDE 3.5 yet? Arch already have packages for it.
I'll probably upgrade it tonight.
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Post by Judland » Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:40 pm

Tsuroerusu wrote: By the way Pat. have you tried KDE 3.5 yet? Arch already have packages for it.
It's still in the "testing" repository... but, yes, it's there. I'll wait for it to appear in "Extra". Shouldn't take long.
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Post by Tsuroerusu » Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:06 pm

Patrick wrote:Dan doesn't quite strike me as a Suse kinda guy. Just a wild guess! :)
No no, but just to quote him "I've playing around with GNOME, and I really don't like GNOME", I don't know how he feels about KDE, but SUSE provides a very sweet KDE desktop IMHO, and something that just keeps amazing me about SUSE 10 is the stability of the KDE that's included, before my hard drive died, Konqueror had only crashed once in over 1½ months.

Also, I'm not a SUSE guy just because I live close to Germany, I like it because it pretty much satisfies all my requirements of a good distro, Mandriva is also pretty good, but the thing that I don't like about it is that the software is not "new" enough, I don't want GNOME 2.10 I want GNOME 2.12, even though it was released a few days earlier the SUSE people still put it into version 10.0, I like the fact that SUSE is bleeding-edge but also has a lot of stability in the bag at the same time.

Even though SUSE may not have the greatest multimedia support, it's VERY easy to add that stuff in, the only thing you do is add the Packman repository to YaST and swap out the included Xine packages with Packman packages, install MPlayer, also the w32codecs and then you're in business!
When I noticed that I didn't like GNOME it just made me apreciate SUSE that much more, because they're one of the only distros I know that builds a very very nice KDE centric distro with a GREAT configuration system, seriously, you can install the NVIDIA drivers by checking a check box and clicking accept, same thing with the Microsoft WebFonts.
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Post by Judland » Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:14 pm

Tsuroerusu wrote:...before my hard drive died, Konqueror had only crashed once in over 1½ months.
Your Konqueror crashes?! :shock:

Gee, I don't know if I can remember when Konqueror crashed on me the last time. I'm quite positive it hasn't since 3.3, at the least.... during my days using Mepis (just before adopting Kanotix).
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Post by Tsuroerusu » Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:19 pm

Judland wrote:
Tsuroerusu wrote:...before my hard drive died, Konqueror had only crashed once in over 1½ months.
Your Konqueror crashes?! :shock:

Gee, I don't know if I can remember when Konqueror crashed on me the last time. I'm quite positive it hasn't since 3.3, at the least.... during my days using Mepis (just before adopting Kanotix).
I'm using Konqueror that much for web browsing, the thing is that when I've been moving a lot of files around and doing a lot of crazy things very very quickly Konqueror sometimes crashes, it hasn't done that in SUSE Linux 10.
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Post by Judland » Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:33 pm

I use Konqueror as my web browers, too... as well as FTP and SMB (at the office).

Interesting.
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tango desktop project

Post by treehead » Sat Dec 03, 2005 11:31 pm

;how about one or more members of the tango desktop project?

http://tango-project.org/The_People

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Post by Tsuroerusu » Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:32 am

As a suggestion for 2006, how about some long-time SUSE people? It was very interesting having Greg Mancusi-Ungaro on, but I would really like to know what the older SUSE people think of things such as the openSUSE project...... and maybe why all five CDs are required to install the standard set of desktop packages with SUSE Linux. :P :wink:
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Interview possibilities

Post by gene » Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:10 pm

The Arch Linux creator is a great idea for an interview.
Other possibilites might include someone connected with Vector Linux, or even Zenwalk Linux--both of which are Slackware variants and use Xfce as a primary desktop.

I recently installed Vector Linux and actually had only a couple of minor problems with it: uncommenting a couple of lines in the /etc/fstab file to enable the use of a floppy and a jumpdrive/pendrive and a little quirk in the Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.9 email client that wouldn't display jpg attachment files.

I installed Vector on an old Pentium II 400 Mhz Dell and it was pretty snappy actually.

Arch is pretty interesting also, and most of its installation is fairly straightforward (even for a relative newbie like myself) but they would really help themselves by nailing down some of the configuration. Configurating your internet connection can be an intimidating task in Arch, especially for the newbie.
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Post by CptnObvious999 » Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:42 pm

I would like to hear from the developer of the Darwinia and see what his view is on the future of games on Linux.
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Post by Tsuroerusu » Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:33 pm

How about getting Mark Shuttleworth on the show? I have a few questions I'd like to see him grilled with! :twisted: :wink: :P :D
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Post by Gomer_X » Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:10 am

Tsuroerusu wrote:How about getting Mark Shuttleworth on the show? I have a few questions I'd like to see him grilled with! :twisted: :wink: :P :D
Like why didn't he base Ubuntu on SuSE? :lol:
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Post by Tsuroerusu » Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:30 am

Gomer_X wrote:Like why didn't he base Ubuntu on SuSE? :lol:
Nope, I was going to ask him why Kubuntu's Konqueror is so ugly, and why the Ubuntu guys choose GNOME when they started over KDE, because we know for a fact there are more KDE users out there.
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