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Folks, I double/triple boot to SuSE 10.2, Ubunto and live distro PCLinuxOS and / or Knoppix. For newcomer I would strongly suggest Ubunto due to ease of upgrading /installing safety updates. (Simplest yet!) For ease of use once YAST is known then SuSE becomes firm favorite. DO not load ZEN! PCLinuxOS is easiest for newcomer to see what is there. I have not used long enough to see (Slick presentation) Booting times /program start times almost the same (within 2 seconds on my machines) Regards Eion MacDonald (eionmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Tel. +44 (0) 1925762873 Unencrypted electronic mail is not secure and may not be authentic. If you have any doubts as to the contents please telephone to confirm. Rob Beard wrote: > Jonathan Roberts wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I know many people consider this to be a personal choice, but I'd like >> to hear people's opinions! >> >> I'm setting up a system for a family friend, and decided to use Ubuntu >> as it's reputation for "just working" is very strong. Unfortunately, >> the wireless connection seemed a bit sketchy on it (atheros chip, >> madwifi), so I thought rather than play around with it, I would try >> openSUSE 10.2. >> >> The wifi works brilliantly on openSUSE, and I love the system as a >> whole - amazingly well polished (+ slab is brilliant :D), but almost >> immediately after I was running it for the first time it slowed up >> massively. Applications now take an age to load, but once loaded are >> quite snappy. I've tried all sorts to fix this, as I loved the >> distribution so much, but no luck :( >> >> Usually I use Fedora, but I'm reluctant to put this on as lately I've >> been disappointed with a few updates having regressions, and after >> using openSUSE, the lack of polish! >> >> So, recommendations for a distro along the lines of openSUSE? i.e. >> works out of the box, no fuss, and is very well presented? I think I'm >> going to switch my own systems at some point too. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jon >> >> p.s. no flame war intended! :p >> > > Maybe it's worth having a loook at PCLinuxOS? I haven't used it much > myself although it seems to be a fairly popular alternative to Ubuntu. > IIRC it's based on Mandriva. > > What is the problem with the Wifi? There was a discussion about issues > with Madwifi on Ubuntu 7.04 on the Ubuntu-UK mailing list. I think the > solution so far is to wait for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (is that 7.10?). > > Rob > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html