[GRLUG] The battle of the distros

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 14:57 -0500, Topher wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Collin Kidder <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> > > So, in the end I just could find no really good reason NOT to use 
> > > Ubuntu and it works just fine. Seems to me that maybe the arguments 
> > > against it are either old and expired or just based on Elitism. 
> > > Correct me if I'm wrong.
> > A proper distro war thread! (Apologies to Topher for hijacking his
> > SuSE thread...)
> That's ok.  What I learned is that the HP2133 comes with a custom setup of
> Suse that is VERY old (firefox 2.0.1, gami 1.5, etc) with no upgrade
> packages available, and third party repos were promised to break 
> everything.
> Total suckage.

Yep, SLED is very "stable". :)

> So I got Minbuntu, which is built *specifically* for the hp2133, and
> everything works swimmingly.  I think I like it better than my dell d630.

Any feedback on the HP2133 is appreciated;  I've only got to play with
one.  How do they stand up to real use?  Like if I have a spreadsheet
larger than 100 lines *and* two firefox windows open...