YaST is still slow. What are you doing now if not IT?
-- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration 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. > > ... > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
