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Jonathan Roberts wrote: > Hi all, > > I know many people consider this to be a personal choice, but I'd like > to hear people's opinions! > > I'm setting up a system for a family friend, and decided to use Ubuntu > as it's reputation for "just working" is very strong. Unfortunately, > the wireless connection seemed a bit sketchy on it (atheros chip, > madwifi), so I thought rather than play around with it, I would try > openSUSE 10.2. > > The wifi works brilliantly on openSUSE, and I love the system as a > whole - amazingly well polished (+ slab is brilliant :D), but almost > immediately after I was running it for the first time it slowed up > massively. Applications now take an age to load, but once loaded are > quite snappy. I've tried all sorts to fix this, as I loved the > distribution so much, but no luck :( > > Usually I use Fedora, but I'm reluctant to put this on as lately I've > been disappointed with a few updates having regressions, and after > using openSUSE, the lack of polish! > > So, recommendations for a distro along the lines of openSUSE? i.e. > works out of the box, no fuss, and is very well presented? I think I'm > going to switch my own systems at some point too. > > Cheers, > > Jon > > p.s. no flame war intended! :p > Maybe it's worth having a loook at PCLinuxOS? I haven't used it much myself although it seems to be a fairly popular alternative to Ubuntu. IIRC it's based on Mandriva. What is the problem with the Wifi? There was a discussion about issues with Madwifi on Ubuntu 7.04 on the Ubuntu-UK mailing list. I think the solution so far is to wait for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (is that 7.10?). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html