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From: Albert Wagner
To: suse_users Before I go off half-cocked and wipe this system, I thought I had better give the benefit of doubt to SuSE, and ask: Where is the documentation for "The SuSE boot concept?"
I've been on SysV(Redhat, Mandrake) and BSD-like(Slack) and now I am confronted with yet another "boot concept", apparently non-standard and hidden beneath a proprietary layer called SuSEConfig.
If I understand correctly, this documentation is contained in another proprietary document, the SuSE Handbook, which was not included in my boxed set. It seems that only SuSE rpms will install correctly on a SuSE system and SuSE rpms are as rare as hen's teeth.
I am not saying that SuSE does not have the right to obfuscate and change booting, configuration, and installation to suit themselves. What I am complaining about is that their new approach was not made clear in the sales hype and is poorly documented, leaving those coming from other linux environments at a total loss.
Those of you who don't know what I am talking about should read:
/etc/init.d/README
I sincerely hope that someone can convince me that SuSEConfig is a great thing and that I am totally wrong. I probably am totally wrong. I hope so. I am tired of installing linux systems looking for the ideal. (Slackware with RPMs?). Meanwhile, I'm going to go find LSB and see what it's all about.
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