Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 13:17 schrieb HG:
Hi!
I've been wanting to replace windows at home with SUSE for some time now. I've been running SUSE since 9.0 on some computer.
I've been running suse since before suse even became its own distribution...
Current 10.2 is probably the best so far (although the software management / update systems still do not work as well as they did for example in 9.3. - well, at least for me they do not work).
Must be your fault. I have four systems running suse, one with 10.0 and three with 10.2, all of them using way more installation sources than just the basic suse source, and none of them have problems updating, neither with suse patches nor with packages from the other sources.
So far it seems that with SUSE you can do email, web browsing (with some problems) and basic things like that. Thanks to Guru and Packman, even media works somehow.
"somehow"? I think multimedia on suse+packman+guru works even better than on a windows box.
And of course, developer things are there, but this is not your normal home things (rather your work). Basic office is there (although, the OO in 10.2 can not open word docs as well as the OO in 10.0 did...).
ok, you might even have a point here, since I dont have complicated office documents, I can't really talk here.
But it's still far behind WindowsXP and OS X.
IMO it's the other way around. There are hundreds of things that i can do in suse linux with just a click of the mouse or a short command in a shell window that i wouldn't even know how to approach on xp or mac os. ...ok, on mac os it might be easier than on xp, since mac os has bash ;)
And as Vista is coming, it'll be further again. And what Vista brings on is DRM. Of course, in short time, OS X will have the same protected hardware paths for HD Video. Linux will not. Yes, I hate the DRM things! And I love Linux for not having them. But this is one more reason why SUSE will not make it to the general desktop at home.
Any proof for that? Right now, it looks like DRM might actually hinder vista... I don't have the link handy right now but there was a report on the web maybe a week ago where it said that especially those "protected hardware paths" that will make vista a pain, even more so than the need to re-activate XP after your third graphics card...
- Samba and Linux passwd synchronization... How do you setup Samba in SUSE? Well, you open up YaST and start up Samba server. How do you give you children access there? Well from YaST you create new users. And then comes the catch - they can not access any smb-shares. And no, you can not fix it from the YaST - even though you could do everything else from there. You have to go down to command line. And then teach everybody that you have these 2 different passwords to use.
you _can_ do that in yast. hint: ldap. bye, MH -- gpg key fingerprint: 5F64 4C92 9B77 DE37 D184 C5F9 B013 44E7 27BD 763C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org