Well, I went up to the English version of the site for SuSE and 6.1 is
looking mighty good.
I noticed that the umsdos installation ( the live install ) is now gone
from SuSE and discontinued due to space concerns on the diskettes. I also
see WordPerfect has been added. Awesome.
I did want to mention a few things.
Re E ( the Enlightened Window Manager ) it should be noted that the
version of libpng that shipped with 6.0 is broken in respect to E. I have
to say, I do not use the E that ships with SuSE as I am following it via
CVS but if you try to compile CVS with libpng 2.1.0.2-24 you wil get some
of Rasters playful erros messages have No Joy through Enlightenment. I
think a note about this maybe should be included-- that some apps
'struggle' with that version of libpng. I am not so sure why SuSE
continues to ship DR14, though, since some of the later versions ( DR15)
seems to me to have augmented Enlightenment and includes nice features
like EConfig and some other enhancements )). I strongly suggest moving the
release up to the supposedly 'unstable' DR15 as it is much better IMHO
than DR14.
In speaking of E in this 'too long' mail, is Eterm included in SuSE? If
not shouldn't it be? It is sort the Enlightenment terminal and I can't
understand when something like the enigmatic EMusic is included but I see
no mention of Michael Jenning's Eterm program. That makes no sense to me,
especially since the later is really stable and the former is buggy as
hell, in my experience. Anyway...
Sendmail is not mentioned on the site from what I could see in the
'Updated Packages' section ( which is right below the list of new packages
) . This in spite of the fact that many have requested the upgrade.
Hopefully whoever manages the site will make sure that the Sendmail
upgrade to 8.9.3 will be mentioned from the 8.8* that SuSE has been
shipping with so long. Not because it's a major transition but because it
concerns customers inquiring in respect to this particular upgrade and it
might deter some of the "Why does SuSE ship with such an old sendmail?"
questions/complaints.
Humorously, "John the Ripper"-- the app that I asked about that 'tests'
passwords has been added. So I guess those people who sent me the private
mail about my request being inappropriate to the nature of the list were
mistaken. :-) Inclusion of nmap was nice move as well. Snes9x and x11amp (
I'm assuming this is the gtk+ opened up version that you're talking about
) were also some more nice touches.
Question: I see ( as discussed in another thread ) that Postfix will be
with 6.1, but understand that some people (Hubert, others ) are already
using it on their SuSE linux boxes. Can some people that prefer Postfix to
Sendmail, tell me why they prefer it. I've been hearing about it for a
while and have the sources but haven't actually tried it yet and would
like to hear some opinions from the rank and file.
Nice to see Linux 2.2.5 shipping 'out of the box' come May with 6.1.
Once again, the SuSE guys seem to have outdone themselves. I applaud you
and am anticipating another great release. Thanks for handling the
transition so beautifully, and SuSE linux ( as you know ) will be my
recomendation to anyone who asks when they ask me for a distribution
recomendation.
Thanks again,
-M
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