Greetings, I wrote a review on Votezone.com about SuSE 7.1 Professional and thought that people would be interested in reading it. http://www.votezone.com/messages/messages.asp?MID=105689 Thanks. Enjoy! Kevin Breit
Greetings, I wrote a review on Votezone.com about SuSE 7.1 Professional and thought that people would be interested in reading it.
Cool! You went through exactly what I went through. I switched from Slackware to Red Hat 4.x, and after each release of Red Hat getting shittier, glibc broken, this broken, that broken, compiler broken, I switched to SuSe 6.x and have never looked back. (I tried Red Hat 7.0 since some contracts I have done were using Red Hat 6.2, but after that disappointment I will never go back) I think Red Hat dug themselves a hole with the release of 7.0. My only bone with SuSE is the current installation process. I wish you had more granular control over what is installed and where. I am old school and like to compile the core services such as samba, apache, sendmail, bind, etc... and I also like to install them into my 'picky' locations. Anyway, I am a SuSE man from here on out. I have convined so many companies to use SuSE instead of Red Hat, and all it usually takesis a simple Oracle demonstration. (after I explained how you had to link Oracle against an older glibc under Red Hat 7.0 and all the other crap, SuSE sold itself) More tidbits, I have gone to Linux User Group meetings in 3 major metropolitan areas and all 3 were comprised of like 75% SuSE users. Go SuSE. -CC
Thanks. Enjoy! Kevin Breit
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* SuSe List User [Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:46:41 -0800 (PST)]:
My only bone with SuSE is the current installation process. I wish you had more granular control over what is installed and where.
But you do have that granular control over what is installed. YaST2 offers you the choice to select single packages. From there you may select/deselect whatever package you want. That you can't choose *where* to install them has a few reasons: - Some packages depend on finding things from other packages in certain places, i.e. configuration is done at compile time. - FHS/LSB standardise where quite a few things have to go. - Many RPMs aren't relocatable.
I am old school and like to compile the core services such as samba, apache, sendmail, bind, etc... and I also like to install them into my 'picky' locations.
Well, you're free to use the source RPMs, change the spec file to suit your needs and then build your own RPMs ;-) -- Penguins to save the dinosaurs -- Handelsblatt on Linux for S/390
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