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lazygamer:
Sorry Creedon, upping the difficulty level is one thing, but I have a hard enough time compling a "hello world" program.  ;)

What does everyone else think of Suse?

lazygamer:
Hmmm Libranet sounds interesting, Debian=uber powerful(so they say), so I can finally gloat over Linux pwning wind0ze speed wise.(something it's SUSPOSED to do day and night)

Of course I would never touch Debian without such a nice n00b friendly interface.

voidmain:
Actually Debian is uber powerful, but not any more so than any other distribution of Linux.  Debian uses the same software that is found on any other Linux distro.  The difference is it uses a different package management system and the code is generally scoured more thoroughly before placed in a final release, unlike some other distros.  

That usually means Debian is more stable and bug free than the other distros, but it also means you usually won't get the bleeding edge software. However, like any Linux distro, you can install the bleeding edge if you want.

Another difference is there is no "company" behind Debian, although there are other distros that are based off of Debian and there are companies in the background that support it. But those companies are not Debian "drivers".

lazygamer:
Well I was very unhappy with Mandrake speedwise. It seems illogical that Linux could be slower then wind0ze because wind0ze is suppose to be a heaping pile of shit codewise. So when I use Linux, I want to say WOW, this goes WAY faster then wind0ze! Mind you, the KDE/GNOME thing makes a HUGE difference. KDE is much quicker, so much quicker that I wondered why the heck Gnome was included.  :D

I hope I will have better luck with another distro, because even on KDE, Mandrake DID NOT outperform Windows XP.(But were talking GUI speeds here, program speeds could be different)

Now Mandrake is very good for hardware dectection though. Is it possible that another distro would have better luck with my ADSL?

choasforages:
maybe redhat 7.3 or 8.0 when it comes out. as for gnomes speed, gnome2 is a hellova lot faster then gnome 1.4.

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