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|    Tony Langdon to Eric Renfro    |
|    Re: Linux Daily?    |
|    28 Jul 19 12:45:00    |
      TZUTC: 1000       MSGID: 899.fido-linux@3:633/410 21a245fd       REPLY: 104.fido_linux@1:135/371 21a1c648       TID: SBBSecho 3.03-Linux r3.65 Dec 31 2017 GCC 4.6.3       -=> On 07-27-19 13:54, Eric Renfro wrote to Tony Langdon <=-               ER> Heh yeah. It's funny, for me, I hated Red Hat back then. I actually had        ER> preferred Debian and actually more than that, I preferred SUSE. I think              I never liked SUSE for some reason. Can't recall why now, but it wasn't my cup       of tea.               ER> ultimately what I'm going to end up with is either sticking hard on        ER> Fedora, which I've actually liked since Fedora 18 and up, or with        ER> Xubuntu, which I hate trying to maintain packages for, and do need to        ER> for a small few things (SyncTERM for example)... It really depends.        ER> There's a few things I definitely really must have, and that's        ER> reasonably up-to-date browsers, reasonably up-to-date video driver        ER> support, moderate printer support (I currently have a semi-modern HP        ER> printer which requires a minimum version of hpcups to use it, which was        ER> not in Ubuntu 16.04), and some specific programs like zssh. Because, I        ER> like my zmodem over ssh, which I miss with not having konsole from KDE.                     Yeah the good thing about Linux is there's a lot of choice. :)               ER> Now, I'd mentioned SUSE, but not in current days. openSUSE has let me        ER> down way too much in the later years. With a lot of their dirty little        ER> hacks, like their "Druid" replacement for virt-manager's VM "Wizard",        ER> which they only fairly recently finally removed after all these years.        ER> Their default setup for open-files limit which breaks any modern        ER> browser today, and just.... their reliance on btrfs for things like        ER> snapshots and the ability to roll back changes, stuff that yum and dnf        ER> had had without filesystem level snapshots for years.              Yeah, I tried SUSE before the OpenSUSE days, but even then I wasn't keen on it.                     ... Chuck Norris can divide by zero.       === MultiMail/Win v0.51       --- SBBSecho 3.03-Linux        * Origin: Freeway BBS Bendigo,Australia freeway.apana.org.au (3:633/410)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 226/17 227/114 229/275 354 426 452 616 1014 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 400 280/464 292/854 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/0       SEEN-BY: 633/267 280 281 384 410 412 509 640/1384 712/848 3828/7       PATH: 633/410 280 229/426           |
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