On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 21:14, Janne Karhunen wrote:
On 7 Jul 2002, Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
http://www.distrowatch.com/review-suse.php
It hasn't been officially published -- before I do so, I would like to consult the memebers of this mailing list as most of you have used SuSE a lot longer than I have. Anything you disagree with? Any more positive things I should mention? Any more annoyances?
You seem to be saying that nor RedHat or Mandrake do separate (professional & personal) versions. Have a look at:
No, that's not what I am trying to say. SuSE's Personal edition lacks packages such as Apache, BIND, Gaim, Glade, GnuPG, mod_perl, MySQL, NcFTP, OpenOffice, Postfix, PostgreSQL, ProFTPD, RP-PPPoE, Squid... while they are all present in the Professional edition. I am not saying that Red Hat and Mandrake do not have various editions of their products. All I am saying that the above packages are not missing even from Red Hat's and Mandrake's low-end products (unless they are missing in the high-end editions as well).
All comments are welcome; credit will be given where appropriate. Thanks very much for your time to read and express your opinion.
Then again, how come not beta-testing your products on your customers would be a bad thing ? I think it's pretty damn good thing, at least
It might be a good thing, sure. But it doesn't mean that everybody likes it.
when they do offer high quality updates. For example, have a look at bugtraqs listings of incidents. At least according to them, SuSE is most secure linux distribution out there (beats RH & MDK hands down).
More over, IMHO free FTP installation is hell of a lot better solution than .isos. With FTP, you don't end up downloading something that you're not going to install (no bandwith wasted). This is important especially with SuSE that comes with a whole heap of stuff with it.
Fair enough, although your argument would be more valid if SuSE released the FTP edition at the same time as the boxed products, which they don't. Also, with the CD in your drive, the installation is a lot simpler because you don't have to worry about network card modules, IPs, mirrors, broken connections and half a dozen of other things. I agree that FTP install is better, but I suspect that most newcomers to Linux would prefer the comfort of a spinning CD/DVD.
One more thing that i'd like to bring up for newbies is the automatic dependency resolving (yast+fou4s). This *always* comes up when newbies are trying to install software (they end up cursing rpm to the lowest levels of hell).
Thanks a lot for sharing your opinion. Ladislav