Fedora vs Mandrake vs Suse: Linux Distros Compared

[dave at microway.com (David Backeberg)]

I had the same problem with xmms. My conclusion was that they shipped xmms 
with the mp3 section deliberately broken so as not to get into some kind of 
copyright trouble. That's just my guess, I didn't research that. I ended up 
pulling down the source tarball or mp3 codec, can't remember, but that fixed 
it. I've now trashed that install.

On Tuesday 06 July 2004 19:52, Grant M wrote:
> I would have, but I had already made a bunch of changes to see if it would
> be capable of service as a production workstation (tunnel X and TCP over
> SSH, setup all the network services, setup my print spoolers that I could
> never get working under RedHat), so I really didn't want to have to go
> through it again.
> Just as an FYI, I used RedHat 9 pro for over a year, and I enjoyed it
> except that I had these problems with it:
>   o Could never get XMMS to work at all
>   o Evolution stopped retrieving email after a time
>   o Netscape was just too damn slow over IMAP
>   o Thunderbird was ok, but stopped accepting keyboard input
>   o Shortly after Thunderbird, Firefox also stopped responding
>
> At that point, I could no longer retrieve my email, so that's when Suse
> began to look interesting.
> Grant M.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 7:25 PM
> > To: discuss at blu.org
> > Subject: Re: Fedora vs Mandrake vs Suse: Linux Distros Compared
> > Importance: Low
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 16:49:09 -0400
> >
> > "Grant M." <grant at napc.com> wrote:
> > > Nope. I had installed 9.1 personal just to compare the primary stuff
> > > with RedHat. Once I made the decision to make the move, I purchased
> > > 9.1 pro at CompUSA and installed that as a YAST upgrade. The price was
> > > the same as the Suse website.
> >
> > Ok. In my experience, I prefer a new install for any OS, but I have
> > upgraded other Linux systems and found that SuSE's upgrades to be
> > relatively clean.
> >
> > --
> > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> > Boston Linux and Unix user group
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>
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