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Re: [SLE] SuSE vintages
- From: Geoffrey <esoteric@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:35:39 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <45193AB0.80402@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
Well, based on my experiences, 10.1 has and continues to be a nightmare. I've attempted a reinstall on the same box at least 5 times. I follow all the suggestions I find and that same box still is pretty much useless. I can install any other software because of inconsistencies between patched packages and the related devel packages that have not been patched. Further, I can't add another installation source which might enable me to find the packages necessary to update the devel packages.
Seriously looking at Mandriva, and that is not a troll. I've been a faithful user of SuSE since at least 6.4 and have it installed at clients as well as my own systems here. I've never spent this much time trying to get an install to work and I've got experience with other distros (Red Hat, Mandriva) I'm not as green as all these posts might sound. I've got RHWS 4, SuSE 10.0 dual boot laptop. Another laptop with Fedora Core, SuSE 9.3, Solaris multiboot. Running a dual head SuSE 10.0 on my primary box with E17 window manager.
I'd love to see how great the wifi support is, but I can't even get the packages installed.
--
Until later, Geoffrey
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
PerfectReign <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Mon, September 25, 2006 11:40 am, Paul Abrahams wrote:I've been using SuSE Linux since its early days (at least pre-5 but I
think
much earlier than that). However, I don't always update to the latest
version. Some versions seem better than others, like wine vintages.
Even
Chateau Rothschild had a few terrible years. From what I read here it
seems
that 10.1 was not, on the whole, an improvement over 10.0, mainly
because of
the updating problems.
Okay, I'll state it again. 10.1 is better than 10.0. Everything (with
the exception of Zen) just works.
As a laptop owner, I am very happy with 10.1 - far better WiFi and USB
support than in any previous version that I've tried (9.2-10.0) on the
same machine.
Well, based on my experiences, 10.1 has and continues to be a nightmare. I've attempted a reinstall on the same box at least 5 times. I follow all the suggestions I find and that same box still is pretty much useless. I can install any other software because of inconsistencies between patched packages and the related devel packages that have not been patched. Further, I can't add another installation source which might enable me to find the packages necessary to update the devel packages.
Seriously looking at Mandriva, and that is not a troll. I've been a faithful user of SuSE since at least 6.4 and have it installed at clients as well as my own systems here. I've never spent this much time trying to get an install to work and I've got experience with other distros (Red Hat, Mandriva) I'm not as green as all these posts might sound. I've got RHWS 4, SuSE 10.0 dual boot laptop. Another laptop with Fedora Core, SuSE 9.3, Solaris multiboot. Running a dual head SuSE 10.0 on my primary box with E17 window manager.
I'd love to see how great the wifi support is, but I can't even get the packages installed.
--
Until later, Geoffrey
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
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