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Subject: Re: Choosing a Linux distribution

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 13:39:47 03/06/05

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On March 06, 2005 at 14:51:46, Andrew Williams wrote:

>Don't bother with SUSE then! I think (don't remember) that this is one of the
>things I had to add afterwards. It does work now. Have a look at Simply MEPIS.
>This includes all codecs etc and is a live CD. I heard that there were some
>problems with Simply Mepis 3.3, but if you can get it working as a live CD,
>there is an option on the desktop to install it on the hard drive - a very nice
>approach to selecting a distribution.
>
>Andrew

Well SuSE has definately improved the installer, and the overall feel of the
distro.

It also did setup all my hardware, and had mp3 support on install :)

Gentoo is still slightly faster, but Yast is just terrific.

Peter



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