Glonoinha's Journal: Suse Linux 9.1 kicks major butt.

Well after a year or two of cringing every time I heard the phrase 'SUSE Linux', knowing that there was only one Linux and RedHat was its prophet ... I was forced to install Suse 9.1 this weekend and all I can say is 'thank you God.'

Don't get me wrong, RedHat 9 is good. Good like sex with a real woman. But SUSE is great, as in sex with two women at the same time. It uses the same xwindows subsystem that Knoppix (STD distro) uses, which hauls ass in VMware, and the core back end is very similar to RH9. I guess that's what a year of progress gives you, given when Suse 9.1 came out (recently) and when RH9 came out (a year ago, roughly.)

Anyways - there are still some quirks, but bit for bit I like SUSE 9.1 a LOT. Next step is to see how well Eclipse and the Websphere WSAD environment cooperate with it. If you are going to do Linux, give it a look.

I would like to do it

[Mantorp]

Install Linux and start using it that is. I've tried several times, I used Knoppix to install Debian, and I've installed Red Hat a few times. Philosophically I'm all for it, but I'm too lazy to figure out all the little quirky things that Windows do so well. Which is mainly letting me do what I need to do on the computer without necessarily worrying about how it works. I've had XP for 18 months or so on my home pC and it's starting to run like a dog, I would like to take the leap but I'll probably just rein

Re:I would like to do it

[Glonoinha]

WMware 4.5.2 - www.vmware.com
They have a full demo for 30 days, after which you will probably want to buy it (it's about $200, worth every penny.) If you can't afford it, you will be seriously considering hacking for an unlock key after 30 days.

The only 'beefy' aspect it requires is a bunch of RAM on your computer - it doesn't tax the CPU any more than running on the bare metal (ok maybe a little overhead, but not much.) I recommend no less than 640M, 768M much better and a full Gig or more of memory is

Re:I would like to do it

[Mantorp]

Thanks for the advice. I use VMWARE daily at work because different versions of the application I support can't coexist on one machine. I have 4 virtual machines I use regularily, all windows though, because that's what the app runs on. Anyway for other stuff since I spend most of my time here already I should go ahead and try Linux at work. Not a bad idea. My laptop has 1 GB of RAM so I should be OK

Now, why SUSE over the others? Why not Debian (from Knoppix since it autodetects everything nicely)? Why not

Re:I would like to do it

[Glonoinha]

Only issue with VMware on a laptop is the speed of the hard drive. A 4200rpm drive makes things just a little pokey.

I have run all of those except Mandrake - all in VMware to tell the truth.
My thoughts :
Knoppix is absolutely great in VMware. I put the .iso file in the same directory as everything else and tell the VM to use that file as the virtual CD-ROM. Screaming fast, the KDE is ultra fast and responsive, and it cooperates nicely with VMware. The only thing about it is to me it seems like Linux for