Chris Puttick wrote:
Send later intentions aside, the comments are interesting. YAST and YAST2
are exactly *why* SuSE are effective in persuading new users that Linux is a "good thing".
Yes, they can be useful. The main problem with them is speed. YaST and SuSEconfig are extremely slow on my PII 300. The fastest machine that I know of in this place is a celeron 700 -- many of the machines are still 486s or early pentiums :( I wouldn't hesitate putting Debian or even red Hat onto such an old machine; unfortunately I would hesitate with SuSE.
Moreover, I understand why they do not make all 7 CDs (of Professional) downloadable ISOs; consider the bandwidth - they do provide an ftp installation method, as well as their highly effective (7.2/3 onwards) online update.
This is true. However, they do still provide a single CD evaulation. I would have a bit more sympathy if SuSE produced a "download" version consisting of a single CD-ROM that could be installed (like they used to). ;)
However, most schools will be more persuaded by "£50 site licence and look at this shiny media/manuals set" than "look at this CD I
burned and wrote on", as would most companies.
I fully agree. That would be one of the problems with my approach :( Chris Howells