You can probably guess the answer… Novell’s SUSE won out. No surprises, I =
guess since it’s backed by such a big company.
Here’s the list.. SUSE (now to be called openSUSE), Morphix, Belenix, =
Ubuntu, Games Knoppix, Simply Mepis and Gentoo.
I liked Morphix the least, followed by Belenix. Ubuntu and in fact any =
gnome version of a Linux OS were just too confusing. I fully agree with =
Linux Format magazine’s opinion that it’s too ‘dumbed down’. Now, I =
wouldn’t say I’m dumber’n a bag O hammers, but maybe I’ve been using KDE =
and Windows and Mac OSX too much as I couldn’t for the life of me find any =
kind of Control Panel to set up Networking or any other =
configuration.
Belenix couldn’t display a menu or Start button type icon. In fact, it gave =
errors saying it had problems with menu items.
SUSE was just the easiest, with auto detecting of more devices than any =
other distro and first time wizards offering to configure them for me, =
along with warnings of anything I did which would be insecure to my system. =
It looks beautiful and runs nicely. SUSE gets my vote. Now to wait for the =
next beta and the rebranding as openSUSE.
Ps. Distros were from Linux Format magazines over the last two =
months.
Incidentally, the Linux distros also detect my Canon Pixma printer as a =
storage device.
