This isn't a troll either, but I've been using SuSE since 6.1, which was the first distro I was able to install and understand after various failed attempts as a complete newbie to install various varieties of RH and Caldera . SuSE was my salvation and 6.2 and 6.3 were even better. I am only mildly irritated by the mess-ups with kpackage and netscape although I think both are not really forgiveable. I don't know if this has happened to anyone else but on my setup Yast2 does not work with 6.4. It gets so far and then says "some error occured" and fails. Ok so I use Yast1 which I prefer anyway.. But if similar had happened when I first installed 6.1 I may well have given up on Linux finally. I've been trying to get my office to set up a demo Linux box for the IT crowd to see what it could reaaly do, but if I do that now I'd have to use Mandrake 7.0 rather than SuSE 6.4 to be confident of a really smooth GUI based install. Mike On Mon, 08 May 2000, Derek Fountain wrote: > "Michael H. Collins" wrote: > >
Is this a troll? I have had far less trouble over the years with SuSE than any other distro, especially RedHat. And RedHat only has 650M of krap to install. Netscape has always been broken on all distros, so that is a moot point. I havn't upgraded anything and this is coming from NS. Which I leave up most of the time. This seems like the best NS yet...
I would say that you should look at the other distros a little closer.
No, it's not a troll. You're the only preson so far who has disagreed with me. Compared to RHL etc, SuSE-6.4 might be great. I've no intention of looking at other distros. But compared to SuSE-6.3, which is where I've just come from, 6.4 has loads of problems. I'm struggling to get it working with my laptop, and downloaded tens of megabytes of patches in the process. Lots of people are complaining about all sorts of stuff. This distro is going nowhere near my main workstation and servers, and it's only on my laptop because I need the later kernel, alsa and pcmcia stuff.
SuSE is still the best distro in terms of what you get for the money, but this one has clearly been rushed out without enough testing. That's the sort of thing Microsoft do, and it's sad to see my favourite Linux vendor doing the same thing.
Is it my imagination, or is the 6.4 SuSE distro a pretty poor one as far as quality and beta testing is concerned?
Having just got 6.4, I went to the updates site to collect the patches which were relevant to me. I got 2 kernels, kpackage, kdebase, netscape, the X fixes, the Yast update, the gdb update and a few others. I left plenty behind. This involved a 40-something megabyte download - just as well I have a company connection. Most - not all, but most - of these fixes are for problems which were SuSE's fault. Shipping with a dodgy Netscape was a really stupid thing to do and just shows poor quality.
I can just see a new user buying 6.4, watching Netscape et al fall over, seeing that the fixes will take a day on the phone to download, then going off and buying Red Hat.
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