Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (332 mails)

["Chris Howells" <chrish@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Puttick wrote:

> Send later intentions aside, the comments are interesting. YAST and YAST2

> are exactly *why* SuSE are effective in persuading new users that Linux
is a 
> "good thing".

Yes, they can be useful. The main problem with them is speed. YaST and
SuSEconfig are extremely slow on my PII 300. The fastest machine that I
know of in this place is a celeron 700 -- many of the machines are still
486s or early pentiums :(

I wouldn't hesitate putting Debian or even red Hat onto such an old
machine; unfortunately I would hesitate with SuSE.

> Moreover, I understand why they do not make all 7 CDs (of 
> Professional) downloadable ISOs; consider the bandwidth - they do provide
> an 
> ftp installation method, as well as their highly effective (7.2/3
onwards) 
> online update.

This is true. However, they do still provide a single CD evaulation. I
would have a bit more sympathy if SuSE produced a "download" version
consisting of a single CD-ROM that could be installed (like they used to).
;)

> However, most schools will be more persuaded by "£50 site 
> licence and look at this shiny media/manuals set" than "look at this CD I

> burned and wrote on", as would most companies. 

I fully agree. That would be one of the problems with my approach :(


Chris Howells