On Monday 21 August 2006 23:43, Clayton wrote:
The install worked, and I had a "working" system, but... the installer did NOT identify my CPU properly. I got the default i386 kernel instead of an SMP kernel... and no word on 32 or 64 bit kernels... so... no CPU detecting going on at all. SUSE does this right every time.
I had no problem with the CPU issue, but I did discover a minor kubuntu failing: arbitrarily using ext3, without so much as a by your leave.
I had to install Synaptic seperately - Adept was installed... but not as easy to use as Synaptic. I enabled Multiverse...
I found Adept just as easy to use as Synaptic. I saw no improvement at all in performance, or package selection using Synaptic. The 3.5.4 kde repositories were recently made available, and I cut and pasted one line from the Kubuntu announcement into Adept, clicked refresh, Dragged kde from the left side bar to the "I want" target window, and Clicked update. By the time I got off the phone it was done. Log out of kde, log in again and everything is 3.5.4. 15 minutes max. There are other minor annoyances, but nothing glaring. Kbuntu is an excellent entry lever linux Distro that can grow with the user. Its worth every cent you paid for it. I'm disparately hopeing 10.2 is better, and 10.3 is as slick as snot on a gold tooth, as I have come to expect of the .2 and .3 packages. But if not, I have my bail-out.... <snip>
SUSE on the other hand comes with YAST... which works great if you want to install stuff off the DVD,
I think you have hit the nail on the head. Adept, synaptic and apt were designed from the ground up as network based installers that could used DVDs in a pinch. I get the impression that using network repositories with Yast was bolted on after the fact more in support of patches than any strong intent that everything be installed across the net. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen