[nflug] At the risk of starting a religious flamewar, a question relating to the HP mini-note...

[Darin Perusich]

Hi Richard,

I don't think you'll have much of an issue getting "up to speed" with 
SuSE and seeing that it come preloaded in this machine why "hammer" some 
of distro into submission when SuSE will just work ;-). Having said that 
I'd likely remove SLED and put openSUSE on it for the 3rd party package 
repos.

opensuse.org is a great source of information as is 
opensuse-community.org. The PackMan software repo, 
http://packman.links2linux.org/ is the best source for packages not 
distributed for various legal reasons, like lame and DVD stuff.


Richard Hubbard wrote:
> The OS it comes with is Suse-Enterprise.
> 
> I am not very familiar with this release of Linux. We used to have a 
> Suse box at work, but I swapped it out for a Centos box, because I had 
> to make a change, and it was quicker for me to go with a distribution I 
> was familiar with, than to learn the interface peculiarities of Suse.
> However, I'm contemplating getting the HP mini-note, and I'm guessing 
> that HP will have all the right drivers for the included hardware, so 
> that it will "just work".
> On the other hand, there's a lot written about Ubuntu/Redhat-Centos, so 
> there is enough documentation so that I can install a different 
> distribution and hammer it into submission.
> On the other hand, is there a lot for me to learn with Suse, or was I a 
> wimp regarding my FTP box?
> 
> // I'm personally liking the "just work" option, but I bow to those 
> wiser than I....
> 
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