Re: [Hampshire] Time for a new distribution

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Author: john
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Time for a new distribution
On Sunday 23 December 2007 17:52:39 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
>
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I would try Suse 10.3 a whirl. It much much better than 10.2 and there is also
a live CD version of 10.3. It has less of a memory footprint than 10.2.

John Eayrs