What happened to Suse?
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OpenSUSE is still fifth on Distrowatch - that's not bad is it? If it's suffered at all, then, like most major distros, it's suffered at the hands of Ubuntu and more recently Mint.
But I used OpenSUSE briefly a few months ago and thought it was great. One of the best implementations of KDE I've seen.
Knoppix, I don't know without checking, but I think Knopper left the project a few years ago to focus on some kind of distro for deaf/blind people and development slowed a bit. Also the appeal of Knoppix is somewhat limited now since all the major (and many minor) distros now have live versions of their own.
But I used OpenSUSE briefly a few months ago and thought it was great. One of the best implementations of KDE I've seen.
Knoppix, I don't know without checking, but I think Knopper left the project a few years ago to focus on some kind of distro for deaf/blind people and development slowed a bit. Also the appeal of Knoppix is somewhat limited now since all the major (and many minor) distros now have live versions of their own.
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I wouldn't see that SLES has been in huge decline at all ... nor, from the amount of traffic on the mailing list OpenSUSE
Whilst it's 5th - it's certainly dropped from 2nd place in 2008..
Admittedly I don't know much about Mint, however very interesting comments on Knoppix. I remember doing risky installations of Knoppix on to Windows-based systems, effectively creating a dual boot... I think I managed to do it to 5 computers, one of which, I had to format c:!
Ahh the good old days...
Admittedly I don't know much about Mint, however very interesting comments on Knoppix. I remember doing risky installations of Knoppix on to Windows-based systems, effectively creating a dual boot... I think I managed to do it to 5 computers, one of which, I had to format c:!
Ahh the good old days...
Heck, while Im not a SuSE user, I have dabbled and recently with KDE 4 being... WEll KDE4, it has moved me pretty instantly over to Gnome ( Being a firm KDE user since Mandrake 6 that says a lot ) but with Ubuntu being what it is, and Fedora also following in that path, I went and had apeek at SuSE and I was utterly amazed.
SuSE is quite possibly the most impressive distro of Linux that I have never used.
Im so impressed that I have gone and installed it onto my Sabayon box. Thats a big deal for me because I have used Sabayon as my main O/S for a few years now.
I might be going back to Sabayon, dont get me wrong, but for me to use SuSE like I am doing, only says that I wont be troubling Ubuntu much anymore.
MiNT I have to say is another teaser. My daughter loves that over Windows 7 and I have to agree... Its very nice.
SuSE is quite possibly the most impressive distro of Linux that I have never used.
Im so impressed that I have gone and installed it onto my Sabayon box. Thats a big deal for me because I have used Sabayon as my main O/S for a few years now.
I might be going back to Sabayon, dont get me wrong, but for me to use SuSE like I am doing, only says that I wont be troubling Ubuntu much anymore.
MiNT I have to say is another teaser. My daughter loves that over Windows 7 and I have to agree... Its very nice.