On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 06:51 -0700, Di Pe wrote:

This may be slightly off-topic for this forum, but I wanted to hear what the Suse experts have to say.

certainly slightly o.t. but is is an important subject anyway.

In general we really like Suse and have only 3 gripes: SLES is too different from openSUSE (only small number of packages) KDE support for encrypted wifi is insufficient (Gnome is only slighly better) package names change too frequently (but I don't know that any other Linux distro is doing a better job here) .... Thanks much for your input.

I'm more-or-less in same situation. My personal dislike against Ubuntu is basically twofold: Some time ago somebody presented a patch for openssl-lib at the ubuntu community, which was accepted blindly. As it was either a rogue patch or a mistake, i don't remember, but it left all ubunty system vulnarable. The fact that a single person can do that is a nightmare for anybody who is responsible for a number of servers. I brought it up here, and marcus said that each patch is reviewed by several people before it is released. So no chance that it ever happening here. My other gripe is that certain security related packages (smartcard related) are years out-of-date on mainstream Ubuntu. Either you include them in a distro and maintain them, or you don't. But not offering a package based on code from 2009 (while many newer versions are available) and never upgrade them. That's is why i feel secure & confident with SuSE, Allthough i have to admit that ubuntu get's a lot of momentum. Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org