Please, allow me to explain. that week’s FTLS was not at all what I intended it to be. For weeks now, I’ve been toying with view of dual-booting a Debian based distro with a RPM based distro. Ubuntu Hardy (now reasonably mature abundant for day to day use with minimal bork ups) was the obvious choice for a Debian flavor, as it already existed on my tough drive.

I am not a big fan of RPM based stuff, in general. I historically have had some real issues with installing Fedora on any piece of hardware I touch. I am intrigued to pieces by PCLinuxOS, but not intrigued suitable to actually try it. SuSE, when it was just plain ol’ SuSE, was the first Linux I ever tried. I liked it well abundant, and it does hold a dear place in my heart. I guess it’s kind of like a first crush.

The final openSUSE install I tried for any real length of day was

10.1. I installed 10.3 a month or two back to try some things, and found, though it’s really usable, there wasn’t anything that made me want to say, “Screw Ubuntu.”

But I wanted to try openSUSE as my RPM based distro, again, considering there are some nifty little apps on the horizon that seem, for now, to work best/easiest with openSUSE and/or RPM distros. I intended, wholeheartedly, to write about one of those little apps that week.

Until I reinstalled openSUSE 10.3, with the GNOME desktop. I was taken by the whole presentation, the whole delivery of the OS. I am still blown absent by it.

Maybe not blown absent sufficient to stop using Ubuntu entirely… but I haven’t actually booted into Hardy for some instance now. And I am anxiously waiting to see what changes are in store for openSUSE 11.0, due that summer.

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Original post by Kristin Shoemaker