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Adrian Midgley wrote:
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 10:07, you wrote:but SuSE does a lot of SuSE things and I'm beginning to really detest it.I can see there are a lot of SuSE-specificities creeping in, and it is more often irritating than not, but 7.2 is working really nicely in two places for me, and 8.1 looks very tasty although I have not yet run it as a production system.
Part of it is I do a lot of "fiddling" with computers, software goes in, comes out, gets upgraded, gets built from source. The SuSE way, with Yast putting it's fingers in different files slows me down, and their mangling of PCMCIA and network configuration was I'm sure well motivated, but it is almost indecipherable (especially since I have to reorder key startup scripts!). Maybe SuSE could document their scripts better, explain what they have done, german is okay with me! In a server environment where it doesn't change much it would probably be okay. Although for my backup server (which also has PCMCIA) was running SuSE, but when I was forced to update the kernel I reverted to Mandrake, and the upgrade paths were too painful. So I guess my complaint is I need a lightweight Linux, I'd like a flexible package manager that does more for me, but I don't want a distro packager who gets in the way. Theo will probably tell me to run Debian. Anyway the Mandrake install should have finished by now, so I'm a SuSE free zone, what no encrypted file systems in Mandrake, but the choice of other file systems was pretty impressive. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.