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Written by Francesco Teodori
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 19:00 |
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I moved definitely to Linux in 1999, both for work and entertainment. I had some experiences with Mandriva, Red Hat and Gentoo, however SuSE Linux, now openSuSE, is the distribution that I found best tailored to my needs. Here you can see some screenshots from my Laptop running openSuSE 10.3 with compiz-fusion.
   
Some other screenshots from my older laptop with openSuSE 10.2 and metisse. The installation was not straightforward but I had success:    
Listed below are the main reasons why I moved to Linux - Linux has legendary stability. Blue screens are unknown; crashes, very rare.
- Linux is ideal for networking: I can freely set up a functional and stable router, firewall, Web server, mail server, or FTP server right out of the box.
- Linux can talk with many other systems, including Windows, NetWare and Sun. It supports multiple-processes and multi-processors, and a variety of file systems.
- Low resource requirements.
- Linux gives choice from GUIs and shells to everything. The range of applications is huge, and powerful package management systems exist.
- Linux is reliable, secure, easily upgradeable, and has an open design, logical file system layout and supportive community, which make it a zero-maintenance system
- Linux comes with the world’s best compilers and development tools, complete with version control software.
- Linux is free, can be shared with everyone.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:24 )
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