SuSE 9.1 Install?

[Brian Densmore]

Mandrake 9 runs just fine on my 233MHz IBM laptop. But then I didn't
install every package under the sun either. One must be selective in
what one installs. If you install an 1800 lb Gorilla then that's what
you get. If you install a 150 lb Chimpanzee, then you that's what you
get. You have to be willing to spend some time up front deciding what
you want. Didn't like Suse, it does have issues. And it is not very
forgiving of mistakes.

That said ...

GENTOO ROCKS!

$0.02,
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duane Attaway [mailto:dattaway at dattaway.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:47 PM
> To: John O'Brien @itazuke.org
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: SuSE 9.1 Install?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, John O'Brien @itazuke.org wrote:
> 
> > I just got done (I guess) installing SuSe 9.1 on a Pentium 
> 1 133mhz.  I
> > can't believe the slow response of the system. It's at least 5 times
> > slower than the Windows system which was previously 
> installed on it. Did
> 
> My experiences were pretty much the same when I installed one 
> of the Big 
> Distributions on my 1GHz laptop.  It seems they like to have 
> every service 
> running, maximum libraries linked for maximum features, and 
> the kitchen 
> sink to boot.  From what I have seen, its getting worse.  Much worse.
> 
> This is why I use Gentoo on everything including my P120 with 
> 32MB of ram.  
> And its fast.  Why?  Because I learned quickly that I don't need every
> foreign language library compiled in with every desktop 
> socket linkage 
> layer toolset with every filesystem known under the sun.  I 
> just wanted a 
> simple system with what I needed.
> 
> Sure, Gentoo compiles slowly using a P120 processor.  That's 
> why I did the
> mount command to its drive with NFS from my GHz laptop and 
> had it crank
> out everything overnight.  Through this simple distributed processing 
> power, I now can compile selected packages picked from a very 
> organized 
> directory that makes it easy to find what I want and only what I want.
> 
> I don't understand why linux distributions have taken on so much bloat
> lately when simplicity works so well.  Why give up the 900 
> pound gorilla
> from Redmond to get an 1800 pound gorilla that wants even more food?
> 
> Was this a rant?  Sorry.  Please forgive.
> 
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