YaST is still slow.

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mat branyon wrote:
> SuSe is a great distro, but I have always had just one problem with
> it... it runs so very slow on every machine I have ever installed it on,
> especially YaST.  I have played around with kernel configurations and
> everything, and it's just never been quick enough.  Does it still take a
> while for YaST to respond, or was that just me?
> 
> Every few years though, I pick it up and give it another try.  Right now
> I am in the middle of a dist-upgrade on my laptop, which will probably
> break things more.  Hibernate already stopped working in Ubuntu on that
> machine (out of nowhere really... no new packages installed or anything;
> I think the machine is dying on me... stupid Dell).
> 
> I should also disclose that give enough time, I will break all
> installations, of every operating system, ever, and unintentionally
> even, which is why I stay away from IT work now.
> 
> --mat
> 
> On 10/19/07, *Andrew Baudouin* <andrewmb at gmail.com
> <mailto:andrewmb at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I've broken many a system with dist-upgrade (and emerge -U world),
>     especially if non-standard packages are installed,  I'm talking
>     kernel panic broken.  This sounds like the Holy Grail of
>     distribution upgrades.
> 
> 
> 
>     On 10/18/07, *willhill* <williamhill2 at cox.net
>     <mailto:williamhill2 at cox.net>> wrote:
> 
>         Cool.  It sounds almost as easy as apt-get, and is certainly faster.
> 
>         On Thursday 18 October 2007 4:46 pm, Ronnie Gilkey wrote:
>         > [Suse was]  smart enough to resolve all the package
>         > dependencies, add a few more, remove some stale / non-existent
>         packages
>         > in the new version.  An hour and a half later, I rebooted to
>         find an
>         > OpenSuSE 10.2 system with the latest software, and all my user /
>         > configuration data in place.  No skips, bumps, nothing, it just
>         worked
>         > -- and properly at that.  I had to re-compile one
>         non-distributed Apache
>         > module and I was running again.
>         > ...
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