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Comment on [Review] Comparison OpenSUSE 12.1 vs Fedora 16 by Stan

Stan — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:05:46 +0000

You forgot to mention that the people on the opensuse forums are rude and unhelpful.
Who wants that sort of support?
I had an app keep crashing on startup. The response from an admin was ‘so what’!
opensuse is a disgrace to the linux community.

Comment on [Review] Comparison OpenSUSE 12.1 vs Fedora 16 by jimmy

jimmy — Sat, 12 May 2012 11:41:45 +0000

to me its always has been fedora.

tried opensuse 12.1, virtualbox booted it with guest additions preinstalled! nice. but alas, it still very lacking in apps. missing lxde, games, etc. in default repo. very nice. yast is pretty fast, but keeps closing after transaction done.

ubuntu 12.04, horrible. couldn’t stomach the global menu, overlay scrollbar, close,min,max on the right. why choose to copy the worse elements of mac? and unity is much uglier than gnome 3. wish they defaulted to gnome 3. fedora used to customised gnome with bluecurve, after a while they just use default gnome.
no sense it dressing up gnome when it is already pretty. customized xfce rodent icons, i can understand that. why waste all these resources on non trivial stuff?

so back to fedora, out of the box in default repo, a lot of apps – games, lxde, etc. plus yumex is better than all the other stuff i used.
includeing ubuntu software centre. yeah yum might be slower, but who cares… it does the job. plus the most time spent is in the downloading – nothing to do with yum- just dsl speed. it is layout better.

Comment on [Review] FreeBSD 9.0 by Dawid

Dawid — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:28:03 +0000

Well it has survived the previous 36 years. Who needs AD when you know how to use Openldap.. Problem is most people are to lazy to read.. They want to click. Exchange.. qmail-ldap..

Comment on [Review] FreeBSD 9.0 by freebsd user

freebsd user — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:46:21 +0000

FreeBSD code is not Public Domain. It is covered by BSD type licence which allows you to create modified versions and distribute/sell them without publishing code source.

Comment on [Review] FreeBSD 9.0 by freebsd user

freebsd user — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:37:06 +0000

samba4-devel-4.0.0.a11_2

Comment on [Review] FreeBSD 9.0 by Johnny Down

Johnny Down — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:00:20 +0000

The problem with FreeBSD is that it’s supposed to be a server OS however the most demanded server applications of today (Active directory -> samba 4 porting, Exchange replacement -> openchange, Document management systems -> alfresco, and many more) do not get ported.

-> (see http://wiki.freebsd.org/WantedPorts) and redports.

I wonder if FreeBSD will survive this….

Comment on [Review] Oracle Solaris 11 by Paul T

Paul T — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:19:46 +0000

After working for 20 years on Unix/Linux I would still say Solaris is the best OS for all round server hosting especially when you take the SPARC platform into account. If your just looking at x86 then Linux and Solaris both have some very nice features and it becomes more of an even match, however for desktop go with Linux, Solaris is not really focused on that market. Watching the new SPARC T4/T5 systems closely as they are likely to determine whether Solaris shrinks to a niche market or grows to be a major Linux competitor.

Comment on Shell types by sabounchi

sabounchi — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:28:00 +0000

plz more explanation about shell

Comment on [Review] Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin by Daniela Torres

Daniela Torres — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:18:51 +0000

How about ATI support? I have an ATI card and I want to know if the drivers are good and available on the next release of ubuntu.

Comment on [Review] Comparison OpenSUSE 12.1 vs Fedora 16 by Keith

Keith — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:28:14 +0000

Thanks, as a gnome user, I was beginning to wonder about fedora, but I think I will remain content with openSUSE for a while longer. I always seem to be installing and configuring something new, at present it’s LAMP, so openSUSE’s strengths are important to me.