Centauri's Thoughts

After many years of running FreeBSD, and not having quite all the Desktop functionality I needed, I began the task by looking at top 10 distros in linux.
FreeBSD is wonderful for seeing code, and running servers (apache, PHP, a MUD or MOO, you name it) uptimes of a year is not uncommon.

The desktop KDE works fine, as do many apps, including the vast ports collection. The bigger problems for me were the little day to day annoyances, like flash not working correctly, affecting more and more site visits. Perhaps some of these issues would be solved with more training on my part.

That being said, I picked OpenSuSE 10.3 and started on another machine in the house set for someone else. On this machine I took a good week, to test various abilities that I absolutely required before I switched my main machine over (I have been running FreeBSD since 2004).

Its been a few weeks since I converted my machine, and things are going quite well. Some people are now loading and running OpenSuSE 11.0, but given the KDE problems they are having, I think I'll wait for 11.1