Linux distros again, Suse 9.0 or Mandrake 9.2?

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Thanks to everyone who have answered my questions so far, I am absorbing all the information like a sponge :-D I have been giving Red Hat 9.0 a spin for about a week now. It seems fairly competant, yet certain things are helplessly broken like JavaVM. I am quickly starting to get more comfortable navigating my way around and am ready to try another distro. I think I am down to Mandrake 9.2 and Suse 9.0. I am still pretty much a newbie, but not a Knoppix level newbie:-P I have a couple of questions.

Between Mandrake and Suse:
1) Which has better JavaVM support? Is it out of the box support?
2) Overall turn key operation? Overall better hardware support?

Also:
*Am i to understand that the Suse live eval cd is just that, a demo? But the FTP install is complete?
*The Mandrake 9.2 ISO is complete? Including 3d gfx support?

What other considerations between the 2? I may end up trying both, one per computer. But would appreciate some feedback from the local Linux geeks :-D

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Okie, SuSe FTP install is going on one of the boxes. That was surprisingly simple :-o  Let's see how it goes from here...

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Tomas wrote:
Tell us how it works out please... :-)

It went pretty good except I still cannot get JVM working to save my life.. I've got it to the point where it will try to launch, but will fail with an error.

Anyone here familiar with getting JVM working under Suse or even RH? I'm done for tonight, too annoyed. I'll give it a shot again tommorow :-x

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@BouncingAyatollah

YOU DID IT!!!

I had done every step repeatedly except this one!

ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_03/plugin/i386/ns 610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so

All the instructions I have seen say cp not ln,  once I linked instead of copy it worked! (oh and I am using the ns610, not ns610-gcc32)

You have no idea how frustrated I was getting, thanks!!! :-D