Mr O wrote:
Why does Suse suck? Never have I had more trouble installing any
other distro than Suse! Starting with 9.3 last year and the
inability to install with a USB keyboard to 10.1 today and the
inability to properly handle an LCD monitor. All it does is go
out of sync. I managed to install via text mode and upon
completion it goes out of sync again!! Blah!
Seems the most foolproof distros to date are Gentoo, Ubuntu, and
Slackware in my experiences. All have managed to install on most
hardware I've tried.
For me, Suse has been the most foolproof distribution to install. I
started using it at 9.2 after getting screwed by a Mandrake install for
the last time, and the only gripe I have with it, and really it's
applicable to most distributions, is the winnowing down of the
interesting applications that are bundled with it. I may never program
in Mercury or write something in an Elvish font, but dammit I want the
option without having to go find an rpm or a source tarball! That used
to be true and common, but not so much anymore. I'm amazed (and happy)
that TeX still gets distributed, given everyone seems to use the
WYSIWYG editors nowadays. I guess the dumbing down is the price of
Linux' success.
My current install nightmare is that I foolishly pressed the online
"Upgrade to Dapper" button on the Cottage Grove public library's one and
only LTSP server, and DHCP server, and name server. I ordinarily
wouldn't do this, but I heard everyone "oohing" and "aahing" over
Ubuntu's development process. Bad move. The upgrade hung somewhere in
the middle of the install process, leaving the library machines without
any Internet access, and of course the public terminals were down too.
I have to give points to the .deb system, it's fairly capable of
unscrewing itself once it has become screwed. So when the smoke
cleared, I had my LTSP application server with basic network services
running again, though no public terminals because the new version of gdm
doesn't seem to like the "command|" syntax in autologin anymore, and
xfce config files seem to have changed as well. Grrr!
J.
Toman
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