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I have been using Suse for years, back to the 7.x days and Linux in general even longer, I still have my factory original Redhat 3.1 CD. Yes, a single CDR..
( http://img436.imageshack.us/img436/7408/dscn20214w e.jpg ) I also have a Redhat 5.1 CDR too. Both these discs are fully functional and installable, circa 1994ish ?? I think..

  Anyway, Suse 10.1 SUCKS.. SUCKS with a capital SUCK.
  This weekend I will be downgrading it to 10.0 (I was not too thrilled with 10.0 but it's better than this crap)

  Unless you want a miserable hellish nightmare trying to install *other* apps stay away.
  The Zen thingy is a piece of crap. It won't let me install apt/synaptic which is what I have been using for a few years now.

  I am afraid that this will be my last hurrah with Suse. I'm going to have to bite the bullet and learn Gentoo. Before this year is out I plan to be dual booting OSX and Gentoo..

  Buh bye Suse, you f**ked it up.. It was fun though..

One thing someone pointed out to me is the "smart" installer. Go to yast and search for "smart" then install it. It's similar (but not the same) as apt/synaptic. It will at least let you get some of the basic packages installed, you also have to paste this into a console, 'smart channel --add http://divine160281.di.funpic.de/smart-channel.txt ' to give you access to third party packages.

But all in all, I'm very unhappy in general with Suse 10.1 and will be downgrading to 10.0 no matter what. And forget about bling-bling compiz, that's a freaking disaster. You like to torture yourself? Play with compiz. Guaranteed to crash more often that M$ winders..

Once they get compiz and Xgl debugged I'll be thrilled to play with it again but it's way to unstable for me. I need stability. I have no tolerance for buggy crap.

It is obviously derived from some stoolen code as it is also perfectly suitable running viruses...

I've used Gentoo for about 2.5 years now, and an iBook for 1 year. All I can say is, I use the iBook almost exclusively now -- my faster Gentoo PC isn't even plugged in!

I use Firefox instead of Safari (and with this theme, Firefox looks just like a native app -- it's great. Also, iTunes plays .oggs just fine with the 3rd-party codec. OpenOffice is a little trickier; I've heard that it works perfectly fine, but it's a little annoying to have to start X11. I haven't used it, but there's a native port called NeoOfficeJ you could look into.

Anyway, you sound like me -- a former Gentoo user that plans to use a lot of Free software. I, at least, prefer using Firefox and VLC and whatnot on OS X rather than Linux -- it's just a lot easier.

And the biggest difference is this: you can spend just as much time tweaking OS X as you can Gentoo; but with Gentoo you're spending all that time trying to get the system working and with OS X you're spending that time enhancing your experience, because all the normal stuff Just Works.

they've been sayin that forever.

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Every tried to take a shit without paper? Watch this! :)

Definitly a good read.

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Definitly a good read.

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Definitly a good read.

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toilette for u ... must upgrade to Prof. Version. beep ...

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toilette for u ... must upgrade to Prof. Version. beep ...

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toilette for u ... must upgrade to Prof. Version. beep ...

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is gonna rule them all...

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is gonna rule them all...

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is gonna rule them all...

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rox so bad :)) sogamed.com did a nice job with their ascii design.

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rox so bad :)) sogamed.com did a nice job with their ascii design.

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rox so bad :)) sogamed.com did a nice job with their ascii design.

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Hopefully, 64bit will bring some performance to the Apache project :)

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Hopefully, 64bit will bring some performance to the Apache project :)

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Happy Tree Friends
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Hopefully, 64bit will bring some performance to the Apache project :)

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Happy Tree Friends
Ownage