Servus!
Let me add my voice to the chorus. SuSE, know thyself! YaST2 is only
one symptom of the new marketing-driven SuSE strategy. I think some
people at the top of SuSE have been swayed by US market Bolshevism,
even as the economic weakness of that simplistic, totalizing model is
now being exposed (and you ain't seen NOTHIN' yet), what to say of its
spiritual and moral bankruptcy. Stay with your roots, SuSE, which made
you good.
At the beginning of my linux experience, when I knew nothing about
linux, I had just tried RedHat before switching to SuSE. It is true
that at that time I complained to feedback@suse.de that there was no
linuxconf-type tool in SuSE. I am not even sure that I knew about
YaST. In any case, SuSE, I utterly retract what I said, and by the
way you shouldn't listen to the opinions of complete newbies, like
parents shouldn't, as a rule, take advice from kids when the kids have
no basis on which to have an opinion (another regrettable fashion).
Personally, I am going to wait for 7.1. We'll see how that goes. If
it is even more vitiated by a marketing ethos, less quality-driven,
less honest, then I will upgrade to Debian. Better to vote with our
feet now, when there is a chance to change things. Too many companies
take their established customer base for granted when trying to grab
new customers. But it's really quite easy to switch to a new
distribution.
Corvin
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Corvin Russell