On 10/14/07, Peter Flodin
Hi all,
Hi Peter!
Having just returned from using Ubuntu as my main OS for a few months (I give another distro a go every now and then, but I have returned everytime so far :-), there is one thing that Ubuntu users have available that makes it very easy to setup a new machine, and that is Automatix. http://getautomatix.com/
On the contrary, as I recall it was a temporarily proprietary script, had an author who would pretty much hate any form of constructive criticism, did various bad things (like dpkg forces), dangerously packaged, and was officially thought of as dangerous by the technical board there. . Automatix has got a good wrap
lately with the admission that Michael Dell (of Dell Computers) uses it on his personal computer.
The technical board there afaik explicitly recommends that users do not use it. But it doesn't have to be that way. The mission of the script is noble enough; it was just terribly executed. So what do we have so far? The main thing in use these days is: * Two ymps (for kde and gnome respectively) which use 1-click-install to handle many of the necessary things. See http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/10.3 * The excellent konvenientSUSE, which is a kommander script handling a lot of that stuff http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=43378 The problem with the YMPs in this scenario is that they're repository-bound, so i.e. since skype don't have the openSUSE RPM in a repository, we can't provide it as an option in the 1-click-install. I've contacted them about doing this, so we'll see.
Ideally one would solve it without yet another way to install things. What stops us (technically, legally etc) creating a similar meta repository for openSUSE, that doesn't host the actual packages but just pointers to download them from the 3rd parties? eg: http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-1.4.0.118-suse.i586.rpm http://download.gizmoproject.com/GizmoDownload/gizmo-project-3.1.0.77-1.i386... http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmplayer/VMware-player-2.0.1-55017.i386... etc ie. it covers 3rd party packages that we can't host or redistribute, but a nice central location that is a great benefit for the user.
These might be good ideas for konvenientSUSE, so you might want to think about suggesting them to Martin Schlander http://en.opensuse.org/User:Cb400f who created and maintains it. Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org