anthony baldwin wrote:
Anyone that's moved from RH to Suse or had experience with both want to give me any tip offs? I don't have the software yet, but I'll have it shortly.
A couple things: -There is no 'service' script. This is replaced by an 'rc' prefix before the init script name you want to run. i.e.: instead of 'service network restart' you type 'rcnetwork restart' -Yast is very useful--SuSE's version of a complete system configuration tool. Using it you can install extra packages with dependencies auto-resolved, perform overall system updates (you: yast online update), and make any system configuration changes needed. It takes away the confusion you might have from looking for config files in RH locations. -The config files under /etc/sysconfig/ are very well commented. -SCPM (read up on it) is very useful. Enables you to maintain multiple system config profiles managing anything you can think of. Allows you to freely modify config files then fall back to the working config snapshot when done playing. Most useful on laptops I imagine but I'm sure it has plenty of desktop applications. -I like SuSE a lot better (you'll probably get that on this list a lot :) Those were the main diffs I noticed.
Although I am a simple English teacher, I jumped onto the OSS train, as I said, around 2 years ago. Since then my own academic site has taken on the role of advocating for OSS in schools, too.
I've been talking to my local (town) library director recently about converting to OSS. I wonder if you can offer any propaganda links for this sort of thing--details on how migrations took place and were successful, etc. I'll check out your link below first. Her big fears surround cost of MS licenses for all her PCs. Her eyes lit up when I told her about Linux, OpenOffice, and other OSS.
http://www.School-Library.net Freedom to Learn!
HTH, Brett