Why SUSE
jim-e
derivatives, such as Debian stable, Ubuntu LTS or Ubuntu current, or a
mixture of them with a PPA's ect., such as Bodhi uses, or Arch, Slack
and the like.
You seem to well versed in E and did not know why you chose SUSE, is
there a advantage such as more stable package archive maintained, or
better performance?
I remember SOAD, which was based on Open SUSE but was not well
maintained, when updated things would break and required allot of tlc
to keep it up, and Open SUSE in current KDE form, for me feels very
winblows like, it frequent freezes and lock ups now and then, and the
occasional crash, which does not leave enough info to debug, and flash
on the 64bit is a problem on my hardware.
I am downloading the Petite.iso know as I always come back to
enlightenment, after using other DE's, as it has the best balance of
eye candy, configuration and performance. I also after awhile miss the
shortcuts and the easy way to set them up.
Used Elive WAAAY before you had to pay for the download, recently to
me it is very dated application selection and some functionality has
been removed to maintain stability and some issues, it shouldn't have
for a pay distro. I will let you in on a little secrete, "There prob.
will not be a dev. of elive :(" Well after soooo long I'm gonna guess
that :P
I do like Bodhi, but concerned with PPA's, and the hybrid mix of LTS
and current Ubuntu, that if the main devs get into it, could leave
with another broken Enlightenment Distro.
So I hope Petite will stick around, as I think Enlightenment is one of
the most underrated DE's in the GNU/Linux BSD world, and just looking
for Enlightenment.
Thanks
Jim
vatsers
In the past I did a fair bit of distro hopping of my own.
Originally I was a mandrake / mandriva user.
I can't say there's one single thing that made me choose opensuse, it
just happened to be what I used at some point and I was happy with it.
To be honest, linux is linux. I don't particularly care what's
underneath the hood, unless something starts not working.
If I had to start over, I'm not sure if I would stick with openSUSE,
however at present, it works for me, so I don't see a need for change.
Bodhi is what I fall back to sometimes when there's something that
just won't work in opensuse (i.e. gtranslator, which I needed to help
with the latest opensuse greek translation).
The problem I have with bodhi is an inherrent problem from ubuntu with
openvpn and ifconfig not playing nicely together.
I'm sure if I put some time into it I'd find a nice graphical way to
get my work vpns working, but I don't have the time or the will to
bother with something that shouldn't be broken in the first place.
Petite 12.1 is already in a working state and quite functional, it
just requires a fair amount of my time to get it into a nice
consistent state, and time is the one thing I really don't have.
OpenSUSE's choice of kde is something I respect. Most computer users
want to use what they know or what is familiar. kde has a very small
learning curve and it looks really awesome.
Myself, I've tried them all but I always come back to enlightenment.
Having said that, when someone at work brings me a laptop to install
linux, I usually choose linux mint :)
To each, their own...
livingdaylight
I was curious about your concerns and asked Jef on #bodhilinux about them.
He confirms that there are no ppa's included in Bodhi and in fact discourages the use of them, although, personally, I do use them, and have found no issues, so far, whatsoever. The point being they're not officially included by default and if one does use any ppa's it is a personal choice and at one's discretion, post-install.
Regarding the hybrid mix of LTS and Ubuntu current, all he said was that it is not an issue there either. All packages are tested prior to inclusion.
I stumbled on e16 many many moons ago and it just wasn't for me at the time; can't even remember who'se rendition it was. However, that was a long time ago and in my search for a light DE and distro I thought I'd give Bodhilinux a whirl.
It's not perfect, I think "quirky" is the adjective, but as Enlightenment goes its got to be one of THE ones, which is easy, given there are so few that focus on Enlightenment and I agree, it is one of the underrated DE's in GNU/Linux/bsd land, but everything works for me - so far - and any quirky-ness is down to E and nothing to do with Ubuntu and I love it and considering putting it on my Desktop as well not that there is a need right now - Voyager is doing a splendid job there for me right now.
Hope that helps clarify any misperception, bringing Enlightenment.
peace
Conrad