Bryan Tyson wrote:
usable and effective I mean it does not require the user to wait 60 minutes every time one wishes to add a package.
I never waited 60 minutes to install a package (the last one came even quite instantly to my great surprise :-). It's long, a little longer than Mandriva, but not so much, and much more secure than debian.
I used Suse from 6.0 through 9.2. I used to call Suse "the Cadillac of Linux distros." For all those years, package management was great.
don't know what hardware you where on. For my (ten years) SuSE experience, package management was always slow (I remember SuSEConfig running for very long :-() jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Le manuel d'optique de Lucien Dodin http://lesprismes.free.fr/optique/index.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org