Re: [slrn] external editor and sorting

SINNER wrote:
> * Blinky the Shark wrote in news.software.readers:
>
> [...]
>
>>> I recently switched from an RPM based distro to Ubuntu, which is debian
>>> based and I am very happy with it. If you've got a spare 6-8 gig
>>> partition you should give it a go. I think you'll be pleasantly
>>> surprised.
>
>> I've got about 120GB of as yet *unpartitioned* HD -- would that work?
>> ;)
>
> That might do it :)
>
>> I've kinda wanted to look at other stuff for a long time, but I've
>> never felt like screwing around with it and perhaps hosing my Mandrake
>> installation. Yes, I back up. But that doesn't mean I want to hose
>> myself and have to start over from a backup of / and /etc and ~/.
>
> I always see posts from Bit Twister responding to how to's on this
> topic. From what I have read, it sounds very easy to NOT screw up but I
> do know exactly where you are coming from, in fact its the reason I
> stuck with MDK so long to begin with. But my MDK 10.1 install was

I'm using 9.2. :)

> becoming dated and it was time to upgrade anyway. I figure the pain was
> going to be just about the same to move to a Mandriva release as it
> would be to try another Distro. All the hubub about Ubuntu and its quick

Which is why I've not even updated within Mandrake, either. :)

> movement to the top at Distrowatch guided me in my decision.

I keep hearing good stuff about it. Debian-based, innit?

>> SUSE intrigues me. Remember DCMoose, up in Canuckistan? Hasn't been
>> here in a while; unrelated or related, two or three months ago he moved
>> from Mandrake to SUSE. I think it was mostly a problem he seemed to
>> have with KDE losing various configuration settings (file associations,
>> for sure). We spent countless hours being Mandrake weenies in ICQ (and
>> email) :). Naturally, his move to the new distro has me thinking about
>> it, although I have no real complaints about Mandrake (which I'm behind
>> with, by a full version.
>
> I had very few complaints as well. I had a few little problems that I
> would work around and next release it would be different issues. My
> biggest problem was always networking with MDK as I use a Laptop with a
> wireless connection as my primary machine which would generally take me
> a couple of days to get running at each new version I jumped to. When
> Ubuntu came up without issue on the first go, the only thing left was
> getting over the Gnome default. You know what, I have it looking sweet

That'd be a problem for me. I've spent some time with Gnome, and I'm
just not attracted to it.

> As for SUSE and The Moose, WOW! I've heard good and bad about SUSE but I
> wanted something with a slightly larger user base so Debian based seemed
> like a good idea.

Interesting. I'd have though SUSE to have more users.

> My one complaint about Ubuntu, which also speaks to the strength of
> Mandr*, is Ubuntu's lack of a good set of config tools like the drak*
> tools both CLI and GUI.

That's an important consideration. That's not good.


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