Quoting Tim <xendistar@???>:
> On Sun December 23 2007 17:52, m.nuttall@??? wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have opensuse 10.2 installed on my PC which has an athlon 3000
> > mobile,Nvidia geforce 6600GT gfx card and 2gig of ram. Suse is running a
> > little
> > unresponsive/slow so i was thinking of changing to a different flavour of
> > linux but i like YAST alot so if theres an equivalent it might be
> > interesting.
> >
> > Going through one of the distro chooseing questionaires Mandriva is
> > recommended however is it going to be as unresponsive as Suse on my
> system?
> >
> > I would prefer to use kde which kinda rules out ubuntu unless i go for the
> > less popular kubuntu.
> >
> > So can i have peoples thoughts on what to change to and what they use at
> > the moment.
> >
> > BTW i am a novice user
> >
> > Martin N
>
> Well many on here will suggest Debian, it does not have the helpful setup gui
>
> that other distro have but if you can work past that problem once installed
> Debian will be solid. It has the apt-get\synaptics\aptidude for upgrade and
> software installation. Its only downsides (to me) is the fact it does tend to
>
> be a slow distro in the introduction of new\updated packages and the
> requirement for 100% free software, for example Debian has Iceweasel instead
>
> of Firefox because of issues regarding the Firefox software.
That rules out debian for me then.
> You have already mentioned Kbuntu which is similar to Debian but is more upto
>
> date has more current software packages available. It also does not suffer
> from the Debian free software philosophy
Any idea of responsiveness/speed?
> I tried Mandriva a while ago and found it very hand hold-ish,
In what way?
I expect suse could be said to be that with yast.
> Mint is a new
> distro which has been in the news lately, another Ubuntu based distro, never
>
> tried it so can't comment.
>
> Feadora (Red Hat) tried it many moons ago. Use the RPM method for Installing
>
> and upgrading software. Much improved compared to what it used to be like,
> but that about all I can say about it
>
> Mepis 7 (my chosen distro) is a smaller less well known debian based distro
> with the KDE GUI. The previous version 6 had been based on unbuntu but
> version 7 has now returned to the Debian base. Mepis also has a very good
> support forum at
>
> www.mepislovers.org
Does that mean Mepis has got moral shackles on it like debian.
Martin N
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