I've never had problems with X on SuSE, or yast overwriting my settings, or any of the other issues mentioned on this thread! And I've used it on old machines, brand new machines, servers, desktops, etc.
On 9/7/06, andrew colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree suse/novell is a distro for point and click slakers. Although
for large deployments they would ask you to use thier deployment
(zenworks) tool for that which they "claim it works and makes admin
easy"
On 9/6/06, Francis Musinguzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> EBM,
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> Yes Yes and many more. As a "large scale" distro implementor I've had
> problems with implementing SuSE 10.0 on more than one machine. Imagine a
> situaton where by 54 boxes have just been cloned and I discover that U can't
> access the net and can't switch from graphical to tty without having to
> restart. I had to manually configure each network card and restrict use to X
> only, for now.
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>
> But before U decide to write SuSE off consider what it is meant for as a
> distro.
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> - Quick, shiny and easy Interface.
> - Centralized administration (yast)**.
> - Targets mainstream instead of developers. - ++
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>
> It was meant to be deployed and left alone, not tweaked daily. That is why I
> recommend SuSE for companies and beginers who would like to just know what
> Linux is all about. The rest of us should just stick to the command and
> tweak-oriented distros like fedora. As more capable machines are developed,
> heavier and more resource intensive systems are developed, so if U're using
> SuSE 10.2 on a 128Mb RAM box, be prepared for a shock.
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> FRANCIS
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> Ernest, B.M (AfriNIC - ZA) writes:
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> Hari Kurup wrote the following on 09/04/2006 10:40 AM:
> On Sep 3, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Ernest, B.M (AfriNIC - ZA) wrote:
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> I use FC5. (and previously, SuSE - but migrated to FC after i noticed
> that SuSE forces me to work in a certain way i dont like !)
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> Which way is that?
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> by the time i was using 9.3, i didnt like the following:
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> - yast overwrites config files i have edited by hand without
> creating a backup
> - no good network connection manager. changing networks meant
> one has to manually edit network configs, or use the very
> unreliable "kinternet", which does not even have an option
> to save custom profiles
> - dhcp client implementation was crappy. one could get 'partial'
> network settings from a dhcp server (eg, an IP address, but
> no gateway, or dns servers). Although there is an option of
> getting way round this in the relevant config file, yast could
> easily ovewrite that file again (see bullet 1 above) :(
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> - it was too heavy and slow on my laptoy. the same
> laptop with fc5 boots in less than half the time it took suse,
> lasts longer on the same battery, apps start much faster, etc
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> anyway, plus lots of other many nuances..! (like a "KDE" which is
> a bit hard to upgrade, else, some intergrated apps like 'noatun,
> or amarok will start misbehaving).
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