Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

[Albert Wagner <alwagner@xxxxxxxx>]

Before I go off half-cocked and wipe this system, I thought I had better give 
the benefit of doubt to SuSE, and ask:  Where is the documentation for "The 
SuSE boot concept?"  

I've been on SysV(Redhat, Mandrake) and BSD-like(Slack) and now I am 
confronted with yet another "boot concept", apparently non-standard and 
hidden beneath a proprietary layer called SuSEConfig.  

If I understand correctly, this documentation is contained in another 
proprietary document, the SuSE Handbook, which was not included in my boxed 
set.  It seems that only SuSE rpms will install correctly on a SuSE system 
and SuSE rpms are as rare as hen's teeth.

I am not saying that SuSE does not have the right to obfuscate and change 
booting, configuration, and installation to suit themselves.  What I am 
complaining about is that  their new approach was not made clear in the sales 
hype and is poorly documented, leaving those coming from other linux 
environments at a total loss.

Those of you who don't know what I am talking about should read:

/etc/init.d/README

I sincerely hope that someone can convince me that SuSEConfig is a great 
thing and that I am totally wrong.  I probably am totally wrong.  I hope so.  
I am tired of installing linux systems looking for the ideal.  (Slackware 
with RPMs?).  Meanwhile, I'm going to go find LSB and see what it's all about.