On Saturday 07 April 2001 12:22, Oliver Ob wrote:
Jerry Kreps schrieb:
1. What is the proper pronunciation of SuSE? A student at the school I work at told me yesterday that it is pronounced soo-say.
Most will say it is 'soo-sah'. Personally I like Suzie and that's how I pronounce it! ;-) ('Cause she's sexy! ;-)
Well it reminds me of SUZY... We in Germoney use to pronouce it like "ZooZa". I think this is the original :-) (Do you in U.S. understand what we italianos mean by "Tussinella"? That is the very same as "stooooopid suse..." haha)
:)
2. When building a kernel, do you have to build it from scratch?
Unfortunately *deeply sighing!* true. I would be delighted if it were not so.
Everytime you compile a kernel you are builiding an entirely 'new' one! The file in /usr/src/linux called '.config' contains the settings that have been made when the kernel configuration program was last run.
And directly after the installation of Tussinella 6.0 or above that ..config file is empty/not existing. Is that right?
No. Compiling shouldn't delete the .config file that was used. You must be doing a "make distclean', which would delete the .config file and about everything else.
3. I've seen many references to the German list being full of, well, Linux elitist snobs. What's the deal with the English vs. German lists?
Nothing, really. The German list is a 'tight ship' populated, as I understand it, by folks who are very technically oriented. You learn the drill or get run off. It keeps their list very 'efficient'. The
Drill is the appopriate word for those pedants! Their highly-beloved "Netiquette" is more worth than for example friendliness.
represented in any great numbers. In my opinion the best Linux software comes out of Germany! American coders will have to get off
true. compare the rubbish red hat released just weeks ago. bugged this. bugged that...
4. Why do you use SuSE, as opposed to other distributions? I was attracted to it because I heard the latest version was good for newbies, though so far, I'm not sure if it's any easier than
*NO* repeat *NO* linux is good for winsuck wares-children.
Well, folks who have a hard time using or understanding Windows Explorer probably wouldn't do well with any Linux distro.
IMO, SuSE is best engineered of the distros I've tried (RH, Mandrake and some
i began on slackware in 1996 and that was really hard to my understanding of installation processes (oh, my english sucks...but i am giving my best ... )
the only thing i truely DISlike on many distros (even suse) is the misorder in things like directory arrangement. now the file xxx is here, some versions later it is somewhere completely else. also, the structure of documentation is very disgusting, as you can hardly keep an overview on what - in fact - you are looking after... you often run away from topic and get lost in thousands of lines which describe the highly technical content instead of short step-by-step instructions.
That's why I like the 'locate' command, and why 'updatedb' is run by cron every night! ;)
next, which i am missing, is some index-help-base in which you can enter a search word for instance "squid" and get a 2,3 line short description of what it is and a link to the concerned howto, minihowto and doc files.
is there anyrthing like that (before i am again inventing wheels...) or am i just blind and too pragmatically minded?
You mean 'man'? Or 'info'? jlk