Xn Nooby wrote: > > I liked Ubuntu because after installing off a CD, everything could be > loaded off the internet. I am now starting to uses openSUSE, and have > so far been installing stuff from the CD's. My understanding is that > openSUSE is community supported, so I was curious if there is some > "standard software repo" where everyone got their software. Is their > some standard http YAST resource that everyone adds? It's very > convenient to pull everything off the internet. > > The commercial version of SLED is about $50 a year I think, which is > fine if you are going to make it your primary desktop at work. I am > hoping that the community offers roughly the equivelant of SLED, without > the price and of course without any promises. For an amateur or > temporary desktop, that would be fine.
I was impressed with how smooth SLED10 is, but I grew impatient as a power user, wanting to run servers and do dev work, but finding that SLED is targeted at the desktop only. So, I wiped SLED10 from my laptop and installed SuSE 10.1, which is pretty much the same code base, but you get the whole enchilada without having to choose between just a desktop, or just a server. Of course Suse 10.1 shipped with 2 irritating bugs, easy to fix but enough to drive a newbie away. The suse 10.1 remastered is lots better, and that's a distro I could recommend. As for software repos, packman, guru and others are the standard in the suse world. If you install the "smart" package manager, it comes with the useful channels already configured. You can do it with yast as well, and suse also includes apt if you prefer. smart is like a variant of apt, and inherited a lot of the same concepts. J --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
