Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2269 mails)

[talacko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Talacko)]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Jesse Marlin wrote:

> Paul Talacko writes:
>  > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Don Hansford wrote:
>  > 
>  > > 
>  > > Well Eric, I hope you enjoy Mandrake. Linux is still not a "one step
>  > > setup" system. But it is a hell of a lot better now, than it was a few
>  > > years (even a few months) ago. I've looked at a few different distro's
>  > > myself, but I always seem to return to SuSE. But my requirements, (and
>  > > experience), are probably different to yours. Who knows, you may be
>  > > back, but if not, just remember, HAVE FUN :-)
>  > 
>  > I've actually been getting into Debian.  Only on a Mac at the moment.  I
>  > was completely fed up with LinuxPPC which promised easy install, but too
>  > much was broken.  Now, *all* PPC distributions have bad reputations,
>  > basically because there isn't a large enough installed base to do the
>  > debugging.  But at least with Debian they don't bull%$*& you. Debian is
>  > for the hard core - you don't expect it to be easy to set up and it isn't.  
>  > I installed it some two weeks ago and still haven't got the system running
>  > like I want it (can't get innd to start and wwwoffle won't start properly
> 
> Why don't you try leafnode.  I have it installed and it works great.
> There is no user authentication, but I just reject at my firewall any
> hosts I do not want to connect.  From what I have read leafnode is not
> good for serving a large network, but for a small one its great.

Leafnode is great, but innd works really well with Demon internet.

> 
>  > on boot up - but I will sort this out, eventually. I also haven't figured
>  > out to patch the kernel to support nfs). It even took me a whole two days
>  > to find out why no one could log in via xdm (reason: Xauthority files
>  > weren't set up properly).
>  > 
>  > Hey, but I expected it, and I still appreciate Debian's lack of bull. And
>  > unlike on LinuxPPC, emacs doesn't seg fault.
>  > 
>  > Besides Debian has a package manager to die for.  APT 4 FOREVER!!
>  > 
>  > 
>  > I do miss rc.config, though :-)
>  > 
>  > Paul
>  > 
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