On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 11:11 +0200, Clayton wrote:
¿Why Ubuntu is more popular tha SUSE despite thier young life?
Maybe the response of that question can help the grow and improving of our community.
One HUGE factor with EVERYONE I know that uses Ubuntu or Kubuntu is... _package_management_. Ubuntu uses apt with the Synaptic front end. It's simple and easy to use. Several potential new users I've coached in Linux have tried out a few distributions including SUSE, and settled on Ubuntu (or Kubuntu), and when I ask why... they say that SUSE was great, easy to install and use right up until they tried to use the package management tools.
YaST was/is a brilliant installer, but once you want to manage 3rd party apps... SUSE falls to pieces for a new user. Ubuntu/Kubuntu comes with Synaptic preconfigured and ready to go. A new user simply has to start it up, click a few things as explained in easy to read instructions and they are up and running with literally thousands of applications avaiilable to be installed. They can even easily upgrade to the next major release with Synaptic.
Compare that to SUSE... you get YaST with is OK for managing apps on the DVD/CDs. If you want to add in 3rd party applications, the instructions for how to do this are spotty and almost impossible to follow (if you've never done it before). You can try out SMART, but again... horrible documentation, and loads of places where things go completely wrong (for an inexperienced user).
Is there any reason that YaST package management couldn't have a dynamic selection list of third party repos? Kind of how YOU worked prior to 10.1, you were presented with a pulldown list of mirrors for the updates. With a dynamic selection list one could pick and chose what third party repos to include in the PM and the list could be one that only includes repos that were registered with openSUSE. This would certainly make it much easier to add third party repos and people new to openSUSE would more inclined to stay here. This is just an idea on how to better server the community as far as third party repos are concerned. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org