Rony wrote: > scrapo wrote: > >> Roshan Singh wrote: >> >> >>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:44 PM, scrapo <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> RSCL Mumbai wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> Need someone who can setup OpenSUSE (or any other distro for Desktop use) >>>>> for me with the basic apps: >>>>> (1) Basic OS with all Video, Audo, drivers >>>>> (2) OpenOffice >>>>> (3) Browsers >>>>> (4) Wine >>>>> (5) Customization of desktop and optimization of resources to use least >>>>> momory and CPU. >>>>> I am located at Andheri (E). >>>>> Pls send in your offers / questions. >>>>> Sandeep >>>>> 98199-88384 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> A personal suggestion from experiance. Use Fedora. We use it for our >>>> desktops at office. It works well and has all the features you need and >>>> pretty easy to use in GUI mode. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I would still say that openSUSE is very easy to use and handle and with Yast >>> it becomes a matter of second, you dont need to know how things happen. You >>> can find most of the HOW TOs here http://en.opensuse.org/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >> What is yast in opensuse is yum in fedora. Does the same thing, works in >> the same way. Most software not listed in the repository will have a >> line to add to yum to get it to work from there. I know as i have seen >> it before and used it before. >> >> >> >> > Yast is like a system configuration utility, yum is a package manager. > > You guys keep telling me all that, but for a non-tech user, both are same. both allow me to see a list of software like in Windows XP and then chose what we want to add or remove. So i dont really care whether it is a system config or a package manager, it allows me to add and remove software.
Ofcourse, it has been 6 years since i used suse, so i dont necessarily remember what else it can do. i dont remember having used it for any system config work. Regards saswata -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
