I've been happily using SuSE 8.0 on both my desktop and laptop for about a year now. I think I will upgrade to 8.2 merely to support SuSE.
Sometimes I feel like I should give Red Hat a whirl since it is so widely used. I feel like I may be missing things that thousands of other Linux users take for granted since they use Red Hat every day.
Or I'd like try to get Debian running. I tried 2.2 (potato) a year ago and never really got a functioning desktop running. I was online and even had Samba sharing the internet, but I could never get the Gnome panel to run and so it was wacky. I'd like to use Debian because I could more carefully ensure that everything I installed was truly free software. Problem is no modern graphics cards have GPL'd drivers. No BIOS that actually works is free software, etc. So, trying to be a purist about free software right now is doomed to failure. Nonetheless, I did enjoy Debian's apt-get until I messed it up.
Right now I can't figure out how to compile a new GTK and so can't use the latest GAIM messenger. I've tried and tried. Hopefully 8.2 will just come with the latest version.
Posted by Brian at March 15, 2003 01:44 AM | TrackBack