Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3225 mails)

[James Ogley <james.ogley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I miss the (not so) old times when Lenz Grimmer and other SuSE members
> were present on this list, and the spirit of conversation was more towards
> collaboration than bashing.  With the spirit progressively degrading,
> it's no surprise to me that SuSE people loose interest at being with us
> on their free time.  So, we are aiming a more a traditional users-only list.

Some of us SuSE workers are still here, we just don't work for SuSE any
more ;-)

> Like others, I've been reluctant to Yast2, mainly because I acquired much
> familiarity with Yast1.  SuSE 8.0 gave me no choice than to dive in Yast2,
> but they did well, as I'm now quite happy with the new possibilities.

This was my feeling at the time, but I've found the ncurses version to
be superb.

Admittedly, I do a lot of things by manually editing the sysconfig
files, which reduces the amount I use YaST, but that was the case with
YaST1 too...

> SuSE 8.0 is meant fo bigger machines than earlier SuSE versions, and that's
> OK.  For safety, I keep previous SuSE distributions for older machines,
> and in practice, very rarely have to resort using them.  All in all, as far
> as I am concerned, the balance is very positive, and I see constant progress.

While that's true, I installed 8.0 on a P166 with 32M of RAM (yes,
forget the 48M "minimum" for ncurses install - it's a fallacy, just
tomsrtbt your machine first and create a decent (say, 64M) sized swap
partition and then go for it).  That machines runs pretty nicely as a
nice simple text console machine for when I want to quickly check my
mail, and is shortly going to become a CCTV machine, and may also double
up as my gateway/firewall at home.

James
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James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc
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