On January 10, 2001 10:32 am, MaD dUCK wrote:
splitting my previous email up into two threads, this is the second one... about annoyances with SuSE.
my discussion was about my disliking of suse's automating everything - forcing YaST/SuSEconfig upon the user and centering everything around making pretty GUIs. yuck! i don't think i'll get around running debian again simply because suse's configuration stuff is getting on my balls.
Could you or anybody else PLEASE tell me one thing that Yast does that you can't do by hand?? Anything? I've used various version of SuSE over the years. Yes Yast may do more then it did but it also plays nicer then it used. It will actually leave config files you manually edit alone. To be honest I used SuSE for months before even knowing Yast did anything but handle the install. If it wasn't for this list I would never have know that Yast did more then handle the intial install. No I don't read docs-)
and another very annoying point is the SuSE vs. linux kernel approach. no, i don't want to always have to use SuSE's rpm package kernels instead of the kernel.org one simply because i like to patch kernels
So grab the kernel from Kernel.org like the rest of us. Or grab the ones from the ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/next and patch that. Nick