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So yesterday I went through a 3 hour (net install) of openSUSE 10.3, and everything looked good, but when I tried rebooting after the initial install the screen went all wonky. Now mind you this was on an older vaio, but I have tried numerous linux distro’s on this particular laptop, and have only had issue with the openSUSE version (10.2 before as well). So I guess I won’t be posting my thoughts on openSUSE as I went through the reinstallation of Ubuntu 7.04 (only dvd I had on hand) and dist upgraded to 7.10 last night (well started the process before I went to bed). I am very happy with Ubuntu, but I like to give others a chance, though I might try fedora 9, I am stoked cause the new version of ubuntu 8.04 comes out in 18 days. ;)

Also my server is running Ubuntu (which hosts this and a couple of other blogs), and am happy with that as well.

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So this morning I decided that I wanted to give another distro a try, I have a lappy at home that I had ubuntu running on, and figured it was time to try something different. I thought about fedora core 8, but since 9 launches at the end of this month, I thought I would try something in the mean time, so I choose openSUSE (that and it has an easy intuitive network install interface, cause I’m too lazy go and buy some dvd’s to burn). I’ll at some point post my impressions about openSUSE, just for giggles. I happen to like Ubuntu cause it’s got all the features I want and a great support community. While I have been using linux for years, I am by no means what one would consider a *guru*, though I hope to achieve that one day.

For me part of the process is in installing and learning how different distro’s work, though to be honest most of them now a days are so easy a monkey in pajamas could install them, or maybe I’m just jaded that way.

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