MaD dUCK wrote:
what do you mean - i am starting to get excited... do you mean that i should find a way to remove yast from a suse system? (reminds me of windoze 98 and internet disabler (uh, explorer)) or should i find a way of making yast better, more compact, more understandable, less mysterious, and less dictating - i.e. enable the simultaneous usage of yast as well as regular vi/text files?
You could try that... Maybe start out as kind of a KRUD-like distro (for those not familiar w/ it, KRUD is Kevin's RedHat Uber-Distribution, and it is basically Redhat w/ latest errata and added goodies, but it is still RedHat.), and eventually, if interest builds, move on like Mandrake did. I agree... SuSE seems to be giving the impression (to me at least) that what they really care about is the big boys. Us small fry don't count. If you read the SuSE manual, it seems more and more that only the bare minimum of support is free... anything else, well of course they'd be happy to help you set up for a fee or contract :( I think it is starting to show, too, at least here on this list. Think about it, if you have been following this list for a while (year or so). The traffic volume seems to definitely dropped, and it seems like it coincided w/ the release of 7.0 'Personal' and 'Professional', the subsequent price hike, and the interminable delay betwn announcement of 7.0, release, release stateside, and the release of the 'free' version. The argument has been made that SuSE as a company has the right to make money off the software before they 'give' it away. True, but not even RedHat milks things this much. I got fed up and went and dinked w/ a bunch of other distros when 7.0 took so long to get to the states, and Debian has just about sucked me in ;). SuSE's high overall quality is nice, and I came back for a bit here to see if maybe I had been incorrect in my perceptions... maybe not. YMMV. I really hope that 7.1 marks the turnaround, or at least course correction of SuSE as a distro, or they will have truly earned the moniker of the 'RedHat of Europe'. Monte