On July 28, 2002 03:10 pm, Fábio Rabelo wrote:
I'm Suse user since version 6.1, then migrating from "redhat" like .. After dedicating this weekend to instal at first time Suse 8.0 .. and REALY hate them !!! First of all : instalation ! My test bed is a Pentium 150, motherboard VIA MVP3, 64 RAM . more then enough to run a gateway/firewall to 30 or 40 machines . Suse 7.2 ou 7.3 installs on them smoothly, in 1/2 hour ou less... more 1/2 hour to setup deamons and firewall ... well ... to install suse 8.0 I MUST setup a swap of 40 MB BEFORE anything else ... AND, to select correct set of packages, I spend 3 hours !!! my "DMZ" selection ( from suse7.2/7.3 Yast1 ) are missing, I MUST make a selection by hand and at EACH package that I cut/select this machine "things" for about 1 minute before I can go to the next !! What a hell are Suse developers thinking ?!?!? I dont have time to waste !!! if they have, make Yast 2 USABLE or get back Yast 1 ... or free Yast 1 to comunity proceed with development
<snip for brevity> I dont usually respond to posts like this but as a hardware limited user myself I hear ya...oh man do I hear ya...:) Same frustration at this end. The reason for this may not suite your taste but you must remember that SuSE has a diverse product line, including servers, and firewalls. Consequently I was also sadened to see the changes with YAST2 from YAST1 which in comparison is rather week to the capabilities of YAST1 (yast2 on the command line is simply hideouse from a UI perspective but its also betaware..so potential remains open) Also remember that SuSE has a firewall product they are trying to push, and also now the new UnitedLinux effort. Me thinks the current development team is being stretched to the limit creating, differentiating and supporting variouse product releases. Lets hope that 8.1 will see a return to the quality that we are all used too at the general consumer level. Try installing 8.0 on a 233/32 meg portege 3015CT (product of the year only 2 years ago) But this is also a reality as laptops are designed to live only for quarter and then are considered redundant. It must be very difficult to be in the distro business. Certainly I appreciate the volume of work SuSE puts into its product releases and there are bound to be glitches periodically. For me, probably the exception other then you and a few others, 8.0 was one of those releases. But im sure there will be marked improvements with 8.1 Best and hang in there. ciao chris h